Information for prospective students and postdocs
We are always looking for highly-motivated students who have strong passion in building and evaluating intelligent systems and applications. Students can choose to work in any of the topics in the HCI area, i.e., Ageing and Accessibility, User Experience and Usability, Games and Play, Interaction techniques, Devices and Modalities where we aim to:
- Designing multimodal text entry techniques
- Computational User Interface Design
- Designing Intelligent UIs to improve the Learnability of Mobile Devices
- Designing interactive systems on smartphone, smartwatches, AR and VR
- Understanding Cultural Effect of Older adults’ New Technology Adoption
If you want to enter the Ph.D. program, you must first contact me and discuss your research plan to get it approved before the application deadline. You can find my specialization areas and projects here.
Information for Master and Bachelor students
A range of graduate and undergraduate projects are available for University of Tsukuba master and bachelor students. Please drop me an email for more information.
MSc students from east or south-east Asian universities can apply for a very short paid summer internship for 15 days. Visit this page for more information.
What I expect from graduate students
- Backgrounds in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, HCI, Interaction Design, or Digital Media.
- Strong skills in Computer and Web programming (specifically Android, Python, Matlab)
- Ability to work individually or in a team
- Excellent analytical and presentation skills
- Basic understanding in either user interface design or quantitative research methods (i.e., experiment design, hypothesis testing)
- Ability to read and understand research papers
- Ability to write research report
Graduate Division Requirements
Please see the detail requirements for the Master and Doctoral degree application in the School website (Master's degree Englsih program, Doctoral degree English program). Let me know if you do not have the TOEIC/TOEFL/IELTS score, but planning on taking the exams soon.
- Filled up application form (Form 1 in the website)
- A letter of recommendation from your previous degree supervisor
- TOEIC/TOEFL/IELTS score
- Graduate and Degree certificates alongwith Academic Transcripts
If you meet these requirements, contact Sayan Sarcar in advance with your CV, unofficial transcripts, research statement, TOEIC/TOEFL/IELTS score for further discussion.
Deadlines: For prospective Master and Doctoral students, application period via e-mail: November 21 to December 12, 2018 (Deadline for submission of printed and original documents: December 19, 2018) [Please follow application guidelines for details]
For prospective postdoc candidates: You are adviced to keep eyes on JSPS postdoctoral fellowship website for future opportunities and contact via email to further discuss on posssible project topics.
About Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies
The Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, undertakes various types of research in the fields of library and information science and information-media studies, with a focus on the whole soft infrastructure for circulating knowledge and information, which is the indispensable base for human intellectual and creative activities.
In today's society, the information network plays a vital role in the circulation and use of knowledge and information, to which traditional paper books, materials, and academic literature have made significant contributions. The importance and the emphasis of information in multi-media forms is increasing. While the information network has become a place similar to a huge library, from which we can obtain knowledge and information, we must also develop other new library functions to allow us to find precisely information we require from a large pool of unprocessed data in the information network. In these circumstances, we conduct a wide range of interdisciplinary research on information and media as the fundamental technologies for all academic fields. These researches include such features as an approach dealing with the contents of information and an approach from the users' viewpoints, place strong emphasis on kansei (feelings).
The Graduate School (doctoral program) consists of two parts: an initial two-year master's program and a continuing three-year doctoral program. Our graduate programs aim to nurture global academic researchers and highly skilled information specialists.