questions about this position should be directed to: nitendra rajput at rnitendra at gmail.com
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:11, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at cs.washington.edu> wrote: > Job Description: > We are looking for a PhD (not necessarily a fresh graduate) in the > area of Mobile HCI to work on the Spoken Web project. Details of the > project are mentioned in the next paragraph. The candidate is expected > to work in New Delhi in the area of mobile interactions, multi-modal > interfaces, multimedia information retrieval, audio content analysis. > A strong background and publications in HCI conferences would be > required. > > Spoken Web: > This is a research project at IBM India Research Lab, the aim of which > is to create a parallel of the World Wide Web, for developing > countries. The concepts revolve around providing phone-based access to > "VoiceSites" that have audio content. A majority of the world > population does not have access to the internet and is low in > literacy. This is the target for Spoken Web. Spoken Web navigation, > browsing and search are some of the many technical aspects that the > research group is focussing on. A high-level description of the Spoken > Web is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trFfrOiCSWQ. >
