Duration: 9 W2 Contract
Location: Iseling, NJ
Top Skills' Details
1) 2 years of experience running behavioral experiments and collecting data
2) Strong communication and interpersonal management skills.
3) Bachelor's Degree in Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Psychology, or related fields
Description:
Our goal is to explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences.
We are looking for a motivated researchers to join our team, whose mission is to create and apply scientific knowledge about the cognitive system to improve human experiences in the augmented world.
We are specifically looking for candidates with experience in supporting human behavioral experiments. Our team of researchers is identifying cognitively-inspired solutions for human computer interaction.
Duties and responsibilities:

• Stage, set up, and/or manage equipment and lab spaces to be used for experiments at the data collection center.
• Supervise Data Collection which include collection of informed consent, supervising experiment protocols participants, handling of confidential data, and creation of basic reports.
• Conduct literature reviews on a wide field of research topics if needed.
• Assist with recruiting and scheduling of experiment participants as needed.
• Review large volume of data for quality issues and provide feedback when quality improvements are needed.

Key Performance Measurements:

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills: interact with and working with appropriate team to find a solution to a wide range of data collection issues in a timely manner
• Must have amazing communication skills so they can properly work with the labs and teams. They won't always have their manager on hand so they'll need to quickly determine the best way to trigger communication and important updates.
• Process improvement: work with science & engineering team to establish an effective workflow of reporting and getting solution to study related issues.

Skills:
User experience research, Strong communication and interpersonal management skills, Data Collection, data collection and analysis, Human Computer Interaction, Research on Devices
Top Skills Details:
User experience research, strong communication and interpersonal management skills, data collection
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Experience running Human Computer Interaction behavioral studies, research with participants wearing a hardware device, being able to collect data and properly enter it with accuracy.
Experience Level:
Intermediate Level
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.