Internship Opportunity: Research Intern - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Microsoft

Microsoft

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This internship is a collaboration between the Collaborative Intelligence Team at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and the Microsoft Loop Product Team.

We are excited to welcome an intern to conduct research into how cross-functional project teams could use AI-augmented collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Loop, to reach consensus on intent, to plan and track work, and to collate relevant resources.

Project teams often struggle to complete collaborative tasks as relevant information is scattered across a variety of disconnected systems. This leads to communication gaps, traceability challenges, and difficulties in finding project-related artifacts.

For this internship, we are looking for an HCI/CSCW researcher who will undertake qualitative user research into how AI-augmented collaboration tools could be used to: (i) define and agree on shared intent; (ii) assemble related resources in support of planning, tracking, sensemaking, and action; (iii) support memory as tasks progress; and (iv) enable the co-creation of content for collaborative task accomplishment.

This will contribute to our understanding of the relationships between intents for task completion, the resources people gather, and the uses they are put to.

Findings will inform the Microsoft Loop team and MSR's agendas for future work.

The intern must begin the internship during May or June 2024.

They will be based in the UK (United Kingdom) for the duration of their internship, working primarily from our Cambridge lab, whilst collaborating with local as well as global partners.

Responsibilities:

In this internship you will:

Design and conduct qualitative user research on the project theme.
Analyse data and communicate results and insights through internal presentations and written material.
Collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team from Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Loop.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

This internship is for graduate students working towards a Ph.

in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, Behavioral Science, Design, Computer Science, or related Social Science at the time of the internship.

Other Requirements:

This position requires you to have significant experience with designing and running qualitative user research studies, analysing qualitative data, and developing takeaways from this.
You must be interested in working in multidisciplinary teams and be able to communicate to a multidisciplinary audience.
Good organizational skills are required, and you should have the ability to present and visualize your work in a clear and intuitive way.
You should have an interest and ideally also experience in researching technologies for the workplace and humanAI systems