Dr. vis.
I am currently using my baby-time-off-my-university-job to get my options sorted out for further research. The MACE project is running for another year, so the big decision is, if+how to pursue a PhD. At my home base FHP, formally, I cannot do a PhD. So, at least, I have to find a good Ph.D. supervisor at a “real” university.
For this purpose, I started to map all institutions and people that could be candidates or helpful or interesting to meet on Google maps.
I am not 100% clear about both the mode and the scope of the thesis. But I think it is safe to say I would love to advance design research in visualization of the social web.
If you — prosumer you are — have any additional ideas of who I could get in touch with, or could even imagine supervising my thesis, I would be very happy about additional spots on the map or a little comment here. Thanks!
June 16th, 2008 at 11:42 am
There is a PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia communication in Milan, Italy. The Communication Design Research Unit has a strong focus on interface/visualization from a design perspective ( cf. http://www.politecalab.org/densitydesign http://www.vimeo.com/1164911 )
June 16th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Thanks, much appreciated!
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 am
I am working under the advisory of Dr. John Stasko at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, Georgia, USA). He is a good advisor even though his focus is more on sensemaking and gaining insight in the context of intelligence / homeland security.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Maybe you’ll find something here: http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php?title=Category:Jobs
June 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Excellent resource, thanks!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Older information on “Schools that teach about info design” may help you think about the many related departments that may house info-viz sorts: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msgid=000014&topicid=1
Good luck! We’ll look forward to seeing where you go!
July 18th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Not exactly “social web” but still information visualization, or more precisely geovisualisation: The Geographic Information Visualization & Analysis Division (GIVA) at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich (http://www.geo.uzh.ch/gia/aboutus/)
November 12th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Maybe you would consider Typography & Graphic Communication at The University of Reading (UK)? Information design is very strong there, with many good supervisors. Get in touch with Rob Waller and/or Paul Stiff.
Check it out here: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/typography/
Some of PhD topics can be found here: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/typography/pg-research/typ-pgropportunities.asp
good luck! pco
March 12th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Moritz,
maybe check out: A.C.I.D. http://interactiondesign.com.au/ in Brisbane, Australia… I have a friend: Marcos Caceres, http://datadriven.com.au who is finishing his PhD there at the moment. However, he is living in Europe and working from wherever he finds himself. …and they have given him a lot of lattitude, (he’s basically writing up the Widget 1.0 spec for WC3, and that’s the PhD!) — Prior to that he did his Honors at the ‘Semantic Media Interfaces Group’ in Holland: http://www.cwi.nl/en/InteractiveInformationAccess
I think A.C.I.D. would be interested to talk to you.
(PS… I would also like to chat to you about a new tag-based semantic interface project we are developing… I think we could really use your brain)
Simon
March 16th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thanks for the pointer!