[ACT-R-users] Research Position at PARC

[Pirolli, Peter <Peter.Pirolli@parc.com>]

The Augmented Social Cognition area (ASC) at the Palo Alto Research  
Center (PARC) anticipates a new position opening for a Cognitive  
Modeler. ASC is expanding PARC’s research on human-information  
interaction to include socially mediated, distributed, cognitive  
systems, with a current focus on Web 2.0 systems such as wikis,  
social tagging, and blogs. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in  
Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related fields, with  
experience in performing empirical psychological studies and  
developing computational models of cognition. Experience with  
empirical studies and evaluations of human-computer interaction  
systems, or computer-supported cooperative work is desirable. In  
addition to skills in writing computational cognitive models,  
familiarity with mathematical models of psychology, statistical  
natural language models, and stochastic graph models and algorithms  
would be an asset. Ability to independently write code to run  
empirical studies and analyze data is a must.



PARC has been at the forefront of human-computer interaction research  
since it was founded in 1970, having been the site of seminal work on  
the personal computer, networked computing, the graphical user  
interface, input devices, the psychology of human-computer  
interaction, information visualization, information foraging theory,  
and ubiquitous computing.



Applicants are asked to submit an email to isljobs at parc.com with the  
subject “Cognitive modeler” and including the following materials:  
(1) a Curriculum Vitae, (2) three letters of recommendation, and (3)  
no more than three selected papers illustrating recent research.  
General inquiries about the position can be sent to Peter Pirolli at  
pirolli at parc.com.