Acknowledgments
I wish to thank Dr. Tom Furness for allowing me to work in such an exciting environment and for giving me the support and help that I needed to get through this.
A special thanks to Dr. Linda Shapiro for her ongoing guidance, help, support, and patience over the past two years.
A special thanks to Jessica Baldis for her ongoing help and ideas.
Thanks to Toni Emerson for her continued assistance over the past two years. I also thank her for being the kind voice at the other end of the phone when I first contacted the lab.
Konrad Schroder and Paul Schwartz for their ongoing technical help and support.
For the people that contributed to this thesis: Mark Billinghurst, Edward Miller, Ivan Poupyrev, Xinyu Wang, and Suzanne Weghorst.