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Belgium: PhD Position in Information Literacy and Privacy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Information literacy and privacy: Combining context, mining and simulation for technology-enhanced learning
Promotor: Pierre Verbaeten
Description: We have a 4-year open position for a junior researcher working towards a Ph.D. degree in computer science. This research fits within the intersection of the research areas data and databases, knowledge discovery, privacy, and technology-enhanced learning.
The objective is to supplant the currently dominating approaches to protecting privacy (legal, technological, and market-oriented), which have so far failed to solve the problem, by a technology-based approach to learning and teaching privacy literacy as an essential component of information literacy. The approach will integrate state-of-the-art techniques from knowledge discovery from data distributed over Web and other ubiquitous environments, leveraging context-dependent retrieval of data and content to enable meaningful and effective learning-in-context. The aim of the project is to design and create tools for privacy-literacy education/training and to deploy and test them in real environments (the Web, especially Web 2.0 platforms, ubiquitous environments).

This project requires knowledge and skills in databases, knowledge discovery (in particular, Web mining), and user interfaces. The candidate should have a firm foundation in at least one of these areas and demonstrate the willingness to learn about the others. In addition, the interdisciplinary nature of this project requires that the candidate has the system-oriented and application-oriented view of Information Systems Science, and that s/he has, or is willing to acquire, the necessary knowledge from Psychology and Educational Science.

Key words: privacy, knowledge discovery from data, Web mining, technology-enhanced learning

Start date: 2007-10-01
Application date: 2007-08-31

Research group: Department of Computer Science

Remarks: Promotor will be Prof. Bettina Berendt, who will join the department in october 2007.

To apply to this project you have to send your:

* Curriculum Vitae
* Motivation
* Relevant research experience
* Study curriculum with rankings
* English proficiency (for foreign students)

by email to Pierre Verbaeten: Pierre.Verbaeten@cs.kuleuven.be

Via: Official Announcement
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