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[Closed] Cornell University Fully-funded Ph.D., Application Deadline: November 1, 2018

The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University invites applicants to the Doctoral Program in Human Behavior and Design. The Ph.D. in Human Behavior and Design at Cornell University is a multidisciplinary program integrating the social sciences and design. Research focuses on environmental settings across a range of scales (from products to buildings to cities) that support safe, healthy and productive behaviors and foster sustainable design and lifestyles. See: http://dea.human.cornell.edu/phd-hbd

Among the many faculty-led labs within DEA are: The Architectural Robotics Lab led by Keith Evan Green, Design & Augmented Intelligence Lab led by Saleh Kalantari, DUET Lab led by So-Yeon Yoon, Meta Design & Technology Lab led by Jay Yoon, and Cornell Wearable & Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Design Lab led by Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao. We invite applicants to apply to the Human Behavior and Design Ph.D. program in DEA at Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) to begin in the Fall 2019 semester.

  • Cornell’s Architectural Robotics Lab strives to address problems and opportunities of an increasingly digital society by developing and testing meticulous, artfully-designed, cyber-physical environment that act, think, and grow with their inhabitants. The novelty of the lab lies in its recognition of the physical, built environment, from furniture to the metropolis, as the next frontier of computing, robotics, and design.
  • Cornell’s Design and Augmented Intelligence Lab promotes a range of advanced technologies, innovative design approaches, and new analytical frameworks that can improve the relationship between people and their created environment. Two of the major research themes at DAIL are the use of embodied intelligent assistants in design processes, and human-robot interactions in fabrication.
  • Cornell’s Meta Design & Technology Lab investigates how products, including services and systems, can be purposefully designed to enrich users’ momentary as well as long-term experiences. The lab’s research agenda revolves around experience-driven design with a focus on emotions in human-product interactions, design-mediated behavior change and psychological well-being, and development of design tools and techniques that support designers in designing for them.
  • Cornell’s DUET Lab is devoted to the empirical study of emerging visualization technologies in conjunction with user experience design in the context of physical and/or virtual environments. Advances in technology have enabled unprecedented improvements in the emerging fields of design visualization and bio-sensing. The DUET lab research focuses on understanding how people feel, think, and act in designed environments using advanced visualization including VR/AR and bio/motion sensing technologies.
  • Cornell Wearable & Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Design Lab Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao’s lab will work at the intersections of HCI, Ubiquitous & Wearable Computing, Interaction Design, Digital Fabrication, Material Innovation, Fashion Design, Anthropology, and Body Art. We will design across scales, exploring culturally-designed body scale, on-skin interfaces in relationship with everyday products and environments.

Research in the labs is highly collaborative, developed in partnership with faculty and students from departments including Information and Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical, and Computing Engineering, Cognitive Science, Psychology, and Digital Humanities. Preferred applicants are individuals interested in pursuing a Ph.D. focused in design research who have earned prior degree(s) in a design discipline, broadly defined, including architecture, industrial design, product design, interior design, interaction design, user experience, media arts, HCI, HRI, human factors psychology, and/or human-centered design/computing/engineering.

Applications:

Complete applications are due no later than November 1, 2018, without exception. Full funding and living stipend may be offered to qualified Ph.D. applicants. The degree of Ph.D. will be awarded in DEA (Design + Environment Analysis) at Cornell University. (The Architectural Robotics Lab also has a track for Ph.D. students in the field of Mechanical Engineering—for this, apply to Cornell’s Sibley School of MAE.)

One of the eight Ivy League Universities, Cornell consistently ranks among the top-20 research universities globally, benefits from its beautiful natural surroundings in upstate New York, and adjoins the lively, inclusive downtown of Ithaca.

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