IRIT - ICS: Project Positions

The group Interacting with Critical Systems (ICS) at the Institute de Recherche en Informatique a Toulouse (IRIT - www.irit.fr) has currently the following project positions available:

• a two-years post-doc position within the project UbiLoop on reporting of incidents by citizens using mobile phone applications (starting February 2011)
• a three-years PhD position within the project PIMI (Personal Information Management Sytems) on the organization of data access by improving trust and privacy (starting February 2011)
• a three-years PhD position on dependability and usability of satefy critical interactive applications in the domain of space (ground segments) (starting September 2011)
• a three-years PhD position on multi-modal interaction in the domain of aeronautics (new interactive cockpits) (starting November 2011).

2-years post-doc UbiLoop

A 2 years post-doc position within the project UbiLoop. The project Ubiloop is focused on the development of innovative methods for reporting critical incidents found by citizens in urban context to local administrations. In our working scenario, citizens should be able to use diverse kind of devices (mainly mobile phones) to inform to local administrations the occurrence of incidents that need immediate care such as a hydrant leaking. The goals associated to this project imply activities of research and development covering in the following areas: engineering of interactive systems, human-interaction in mobile contexts, social aspects related to incident reporting and risk management. The neighborhood association “Croix de Pierre” of Toulouse will contribute to this project consortium acting as end users for the scenarios proposed.

The project is lead by Marco Winckler and Regina Bernhaupt.

PhD on Personal Information Management Systems (PIMI)

A three years PhD position within the project PIMI. The future Internet will bring a growing number of networked applications (services), devices and individual data (including private ones) to end-users. The important challenges are the organization of their access, and the guarantee of trust and privacy. The objectives of the PIMI project are the definition of a design environment and a deployment platform for Personal Information Management System (PIMS). The future PIMS must provide the end-user personal data access with services that are relevant to his needs. In order to take mobility into account, the PIMS will be accessed both by mobile devices (smartphone) and Personal Computers.

The project is lead by Marco Winckler.

Two PhD's on dependability and usability for ground (segment control) and multimodal interaction for future cockpits. Both PhD's are funded within CORAC and in cooperation with Airbus. The candidates must be interested in notations for modeling (Petri nets, statecharts, ...) and should have experience and knowledge on usability and HCI concepts, dependability and fault-tolerance. Good skills in programming (Java language prefered) are required.

The project is lead by Philippe Palanque.