questions about this position should be directed to: nitendra rajput at rnitendra@gmail.com On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:11, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@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.