Human-Centered, Ethical Design of Technology-Enhanced Cultural Experiences 

Location: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway 

Application deadline: 30th of September 2024 

About the position: 

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position (3 years) where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions. The postdoctoral fellow will perform research within the context of an EU-funded project focusing on sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs). More specifically, the project will explore and exploit the use of eXtended Reality (XR) technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other transformative technologies to enable novel forms of presence and immersive, cultural (co-) experiences and that revolve around music. The project team consists of artists, technologists and researchers from 8 European countries dedicated to facilitating the sustainable digital transition in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).

The project aims to develop, test and pilot different solutions building on digital technologies empowered by Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality (XR) technology for CCIs, based on a genuine human-centric design process. The focus will be on music and different types of musical experiences aiming to foster meaningful co-experiences (e.g., between on-site and remote audiences or artists). The methodological cornerstone is an inherently human-centric, inclusive, and ethical approach towards the design and evaluation of novel digital tools that can enhance the deep human-to-human connections, and emotional and aesthetic co-experiences mediated by music in diverse settings. NTNU’s main responsibility in the project is the ethical and human-centric design and evaluation of the developed tools and enabled experiences. 

This position offers a unique opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary setting of researchers from different fields, professional artists and representatives from the creative industries and to perform impactful user research on real-world use cases. 

More information and application submission portal: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/266971/postdoctoral-fellow-in-human-centred-ethical-design-of-technology-enhanced-cultural-experiences 

Contact: Associate professor Katrien De Moor (katrien.demoor@ntnu.no) and Associate professor David Palma (david.palma@ntnu.no)