New Postdoc Positions

The Michigan Information Interaction Lab directed by Professor Michael Nebeling is looking for 1-2 postdocs to join their efforts in designing and studying new interactive systems & technologies.

Over the first three years at U-M, the lab has worked at the forefront of cross-device interfaces, multi-modal interaction, and AR/VR. Our systems research contributions include ProtoAR [CHI’18] and 360proto [CHI’19] for rapid prototyping of AR/VR interfaces using cross-device authoring, 360Anywhere [EICS’18] for 360 video based collaboration using mixed reality, GestureWiz [CHI’18] for using Wizard of Oz and crowdsourcing in gesture design and recognition tasks. Using the knowledge from building these systems, the lab has also been working on conceptual frameworks and new ways of thinking about future interfaces’ design through contributions such as What is Mixed Reality? [CHI’19 Best Paper Honorable Mention], The Trouble with AR/VR Authoring Tools [ISMAR’18 Adj.], Playing the Tricky Game of Toolkits Research [CHI’17 HCI.Tools Workshop], and studies on creating cross-device AR experiences resulting in XD-AR [EICS’18 Best Paper Award] as well as user-driven design principles for gesture representations [CHI’18].

We’re considering applications of successful PhDs (defended by the start date) who have been active in premier HCI conferences, notably CHI, UIST, and CSCW, but also related, more specialized conferences such as IMWUT (formerly UbiComp), ISS (formerly ITS), EICS, TEI, SUI, ISMAR, VR, and VRST.

As a new post-doctoral research fellow in the lab, you would closely work with Michael and his students to help develop and lead new research projects on novel interactive technologies and interactive systems. We currently focus our research on designing, developing, and evaluating novel AR/VR experiences. But we’re always interested in broadening our research activities as well.

Interested applicants should get in touch with Michael directly via email (nebeling@umich.edu).