The Department of Architecture and Technology has a vacancy for a

PhD - Integrated Design and Performance Evaluation of Positive Energy Buildings and Neighbourhoods

in the area of Architectural Design, with insight in didactics of environmental design processes blending analogue and digital tools in innovative ways.

Digital simulation tools are today extensively used at the Master program Sustainable Architecture. The purpose is running complex computational analyses and facilitating the integration of their results in architectural design processes.
Teaching experiences show that if digital tools provide on one side a valid support for embedding technical concerns in creative design processes, on the other side they risk reducing architectural design to a limited number of parameters, not reflecting its real complexity. Recent researches show moreover that hands-on activities, such as sketching and handcrafting models, represent the most effective way to let students understand new conceptual frameworks and develop the ability to apply them in practice.

This PhD position will focus on developing and testing a series of Teaching and Learning Activities, where theory is taught by actively involving students in hands-on experiences and where digital tools are also used to enhance to learning potential of defined activities.
Outcomes of this work will be instrumental in testing of various concepts of student-activating learning arenas in the ongoing Campus project at NTNU.

The PhD student will report to the Head of Department.

Application deadline: 25 April 2021

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NTNU’s Department of Design has a vacancy for a 

PhD candidate in Interaction Design with a special focus on cognitive load 

The PhD candidate will do research on cognitive load in stressful and risky environments (e.g., hospitals, control rooms) as well as in new scenarios created by the digitalization of society (e.g., elderly dealing with sophisticated software or convoluted processes). 
The fields of application range from health (robot-assisted surgery, endoscopy) to maritime navigation (control rooms, semi-autonomous ships) to appliance interfaces (interfaces for TVs, information displays), in collaboration with other NTNU laboratories such as 
Universal Design Lab, NTNU Shore Control Lab, and the SFI Autoship project.
The research includes experimentation via eye-trackers in the testing lab as well as in the field.  

This position is part of an extensive initiative by the Department of Design to study, understand and shape the effects of digitalization in the health sector and in the society at large. 
It is funded through strategic funds from the Faculty of Architecture and Design. 

This position will be supervised by Professor Gioele Barabucci. 
You will report to Head of department Ole Andreas Alsos.

Application deadline: 25 April 2021

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The Department of Design has a vacancy for two

Post doctor positions in design and evaluation of human-machine interfaces (HMI)

for the maritime domain.

The first Post doctor candidate will work in SFI Autoship, an 8-year research-based innovation Center in autonomous ships. 
SFI Autoship focuses on autonomy, digital infrastructure, maritime transport, safety and risk analysis, maritime law, human-machine interaction, and cyber security, with partners from research, public sector and maritime industry.
The candidate will work on challenging research problems related to Interaction Design, Human Factors and Human-Machine Interface for resilient remote human operation or supervision of autonomous ships. Examples of research problems are related to information need, situation awareness, decision making, intervention and reaction time, remote diagnostics, multi-ship control, ship hand over, autonomy trust, etc.

The second Post doctor candidate will work in Lash Fire, an international research project aiming to reduce the risk of fires on board ro-ro ships and design decision support systems for fire-fighting operations.
The candidate will design, develop low and high-fidelity prototypes and evaluate them in a lab setting or in situ.

Both Post doctor candidates will be working in relation to the NTNU Shore Control Lab, a control room for both remote monitoring, support and control of autonomous ships and for fire-fighting operations. The infrastructure is flexible and allows for various evaluations studies and experiments with eye-tracking and biometrical sensors for measuring the operator’s stress level.

Why apply for a Post doctor position?

Being part of a project like SFI Autoship or Lash Fire, and conducting research in the NTNU Shore Control Lab, gives you a unique arena for research, collaboration and networking, also across disciplines and with industry.
The Norwegian industry needs personnel with research competence to stay competitive and develop new jobs for the future.
Further, a Post doc also opens new attractive career opportunities at NTNU and other universities and research institutes.

The Post doctors will be supervised by Professor Thomas Porathe, researcher Erik Styhr Petersen and Associate Professor Ole Andreas Alsos.
The position reports to Head of Department.

Application deadline: 25 April 2021

For more information: jobbnorge.no