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OCAD – Human Resources – Employment Opportunities – Administration and Academic Support (Taleo)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Post-Doctoral Fellowship\u00a0
MGDS-PET<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OCAD University (OCAD U) is Canada\u2019s largest specialized university of art, media and design.\u00a0 Located on a twelve-building campus in the heart of downtown Toronto, OCAD University offers a vibrant and stimulating work environment for over 400 faculty and more than 4300 undergraduate and 200 graduate students. Committed to excellence and contemporary approaches to education, OCAD University offers 13 undergraduate programs leading to a Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) or a Bachelor of Design (BDes) degree, and seven graduate programs that result in the Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Design (MDes) or the Master of Arts (MA). OCAD University has recently launched the interdisciplinary Digital Futures program, and will welcome its first cohort of students in its new interdisciplinary Indigenous Visual Culture BFA in September 2013. The University has experienced remarkable growth over the past five years and requires outstanding creative researchers\/practitioners and gifted teachers to join OCAD U in an exciting period of institutional development and opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project-Multi-platform Game Distribution System for Popular and Experimental Technologies (MGDS-PET):<\/strong>
A call for applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship is now open for the MGDS-PET. \u00a0This project focuses on the creation of a multi-platform game environment with ancillary wearable technology assets. \u00a0Researchers will produce product and processes in relation to the Time Tremors project that can be scaled up and generalized. The project is co-funded by International Science and Technology Partnerships Canada (ISTP) and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)CRD project. \u00a0The project is a collaboration between OCAD University and Xenophile Media in Canada with Anhembi Morumbi University and Zuannon Projetos Visuais Ltda. in Brazil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Description:<\/strong>
Transmedia gaming engages young people, creating an opportunity to bridge the experience between their virtual and physical lives. It is a popular but potentially-costly undertaking.\u00a0\u00a0 Methods to facilitate authoring, publishing and distribution of cross platform distributed narratives have the potential to tap into a new gaming economy connecting TV, mobile and other platforms including entirely innovative wearable technologies.\u00a0\u00a0 This proposed R&D collaboration will invent and deploy the 1) Multiplatform Game Distribution System for Popular and Experimental Technologies (MGDS-PET) \u2013 a new transmedia games development technology, as well as variety of experimental games interfaces and processes, including 2) Game Biometric Interfaces and 3) Wearable Game Technologies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Responsibilities:<\/strong>
Under the direction of Principle Investigators Dr. Adam Tindale and Dr. Sara Diamond, the Post-Doctoral Fellowship will maintain oversight and management of research activities over the duration of the project including software engineering and will facilitate the relationship between Brazilian and Canadian research components. There are two core elements to the project: software engineering and wearable technology development.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge inherent for software engineering processes lies in the effective integration of research and market-led rapid development practices. The objective for this component is to build technology, conceptual models and critical approaches that support, develop and integrate collaborative research and design progress within a commercial product. The planned outcome is a collection of tested models, conceptual frameworks and techniques for use in hybrid transmedia software development. Software engineering tasks include: Managing research between commercial partner Xenophile Media OCAD University to maximize integration and delivery of research knowledge into a commercial pipeline and to ensure the quality of the learning experience for all involved.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge for the international research is in building robust technology for use in a range of international regions that is culturally appropriate. The objective is to build on biometric research to construct a market-ready solution to support extended transmedia gameplay experiences in both Canada and Brazil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the selected candidate: <\/span><\/p>\n