For further details, please contact:

Dr. Sophie Dale

Project Manager

University of Nottingham

ubicomp at nottingham.ac.uk

Tel: 0115 84 68923

     

Early Career Exchanges

 

The Early Career Exchange Programme supports visits by early career researchers to other research groups. Exchanges at an international and interdisciplinary level, aiding the understanding of new research approaches and cultures, are encouraged.

 

Applicants can request support for visits of up to three months to work on areas that address issues of significance to the Ubiquitous Computing Grand Challenge.

 

We are particularly keen to support visits that involve interdisciplinary and international participation.  Applicants should:-

  • Outline the focus of the visit, with targets and deliverables
  • Provide a preliminary programme for the visit, identifying who will be visited and what will be gained (by both parties) from this
  • Provide a brief description of the contribution that the proposed project makes to building the UbiComp Grand Challenge Community
  • Provide a budget outline for the visit

 

Awards made to date:

  • Jose Rojas (Glasgow, UK): The Role of Socio-cultural Environment in the Appropriation of ICT in Japan, Korea and China - a 3-month study to be undertaken at the following institutions: the University of Hokkaido, Japan; Ajou University, Korea; and Nankai University, China.
  • Doina Bucur (Aahrus, Denmark): Context Awareness in Global Ubiquitous Computing - a 6-month visit to the University of Oxford, UK.
  • Dagmar Kern (Duisburg-Essen, Germany): User Studies on the Visual and Tactile Representation of Information to Drivers - a 1-month visit to the Open University, UK.

 

Notes: 'Early career researchers' may be taken to mean PhD students and researchers having up to 10 years of postdoctoral experience, or an equivalent form of experience. For more experienced researchers, please consider the Senior Fellowship Programme. Typical applications received are of the order of 1-1.5 A4 pages in length, including all the requested information in the bullet points above. No application form is required - simply send the required information to Dr. Sophie Dale using the contact details opposite. If you require informal guidance prior to submission, please also get in touch. All awards must be announced and funding allocated by March 2009 - therefore applications should be received by the end of January 2009.

 

Please note that these awards are now closed.