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From: nielsen@bellcore.com (Jakob Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Summer student wanted for usability engineering meta-study
Keywords: Student job, New Jersey
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.192335.3780@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 19:23:35 GMT
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I need a student intern for a Human-Computer Interaction project this summer
(approximately 10 weeks starting June 1991).
(If you are not a student yourself, I would be grateful if you would
please pass this information on to any relevant students you might know).

Briefly, the project involves analyzing the results from previous user
interface experiments for various interesting patterns. A major part of the
project is to locate relevant experiments from the mass of previous HCI work
and to recode them with respect to our focus of attention.

Main requirements are:
* graduate or undergraduate student
* reasonably broad, general knowledge of the HCI field
* knowledge of methods for user testing and experiments (enough to evaluate
such studies, not to carry them out)
* some basic statistics would be helpful (no advanced statistics required)
* ability to quickly find relevant information in a scientific paper
* motivated to work industriously and mostly independently, though with
advice and guidance
* willingness to do some grunt work (there are a lot of previous studies that
have to be evaluated and recoded)

Major advantages of this position include:
* embedded in a very rich HCI environment
* interesting usability engineering research project that can be completed in
one summer
* salary, housing at a local college, and transportation between the college
and Bellcore
* travel expenses to and from New Jersey

Bellcore has an official summer student program, so special application forms
are required. You can get these forms by by contacting
Bellcore, University Relations
444 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel. (908) 699-2074. 

Please make sure to send the original application to this address and a copy
directly to me.
If possible, applications should reach Bellcore by February 15, 1991, but late
applications may possibly be considered.
--
Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore MRE-2P370, 445 South St, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
email nielsen@bellcore.com, fax +1-201-538-9093