[ARforum] PhD Studentship in Augmented Reality, Napier University, UK.

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Interested in doing a PhD in augmented reality?
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We have available an EPSRC funded studentship for three 
year's full-time study towards a PhD in this area, 
starting in September 2001.

Applicants must qualify as UK home fees students 
See the EPSRC guidelines for this at :-
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/student/default.asp?S=0&Key=0&Menu=11&ODoc=145

You will also need at least a 2:1 Honours degree or
equivalent in computer science (with some HCI experience). 
Or alternatively, I am particularly interested in applications 
from computer literate Psychology graduates (again a 2:1 is 
required). The maintenance grant will be the standard EPSRC 
value (currently Ł7,500 p.a.). Your PhD fees will be paid 
by the EPSRC.

The objective of the work is to investigate the usability 
issues surrounding augmented reality systems. You will work 
with a state of the art stereoscopic AR system with shuttered 
desktop and immersive HMD stereo display systems. Its likely 
we will use the runtime virtual reality software World Toolkit 
and the 3D design package 3DS Max. Any experience in these 
packages, or in programming using C/C++ will be an
advantage. The goals of the work are to assess what makes an 
effective AR system - and what physical, physiological and 
pysychological side effects of using these systems can we 
avoid by use of good design practice.

You will join the well-established Human Computer Interaction 
Group in the School of Computing at Napier University in the 
historic City of Edinburgh.

If you are interested then, in the first instance, please 
email me at shaun@d ............... for an informal discussion.

-------------------------------------
 Dr. Shaun Lawson, 
 Lecturer in School of Computing,
 Napier University, Edinburgh (UK).
 tel: +44 131 455-4285 fax: 455-4552
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