Dear Colleagues. Please pass this announcement to relevant parties. Thanks – Anker Helms Jorgensen At the IT University of Copenhagen a number of Ph.D. openings are offered, among these one in User Interface History. User interface history has so far largely been addressing the development of the graphical user interface and the influence of early visionaries such as Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay, i.e. “history from above”. Contrasting this, the intended approach in the present Ph.D. is ”history from below” where mundane aspects of user interfaces are addressed. Examples of such projects are plugboard programming, batch versus online-programming, portraits of user interface designers of the 1960s, the role of the pervasive IBM 3270 protocol, and WordPerfect (a loved and hated menu-driven word processor of the 1980s). Applicants are expected to submit a 3-5 page proposal on a project within the area. The deadline is April 7 at noon Danish time. Prerequisites: MA in Technology History, History, or similar. The Ph.D. project will be supervised by Anker Helms Jorgensen, an HCI-person who in recent years has been working with the history of user interfaces. For further information on the Ph.D., please visit http://www1.itu.dk/sw38325.asp http://www1.itu.dk/sw65235.asp http://www.itu.dk/research/inc/ For further info on Anker Helms Jorgensen see my (non-updated) webpage http://www1.itu.dk/sw4489.asp. For a more recent source, see my postings on the blog of my research group, many of which address UI History http://www.itu.dk/research/inc/?author=12 Please contact me for further information (but note that I’m away until March 10): Anker Helms Jørgensen, anker@itu.dk, phone: +45 72 18 50 20 -o-o-o-o-o-o-o- Anker Helms Jorgensen Associate Professor, PhD IT University of Copenhagen Rued Langgaardsvej 7 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark anker@itu.dk http://www1.itu.dk/sw4489.asp +45 72 18 50 00