VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The University of Central Florida's Synthetic Environments Research Group (SynERGy) has
two graduate research fellowship opportunties starting in the Fall 1998 or Spring 1999. 
These opportunities are funded by the Office of Naval Research and the Naval A ir
Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Orlando, FL. 

The first opportunity involves research in the design of effective interventions to
minimize cybersickness and other adverse affects of virtual environment training
systems.  The Fellow will be expected to perform literature reviews to elicit novel
theore tical rigorous design approaches, identify functional, user, and task
requirements, iteratively design the interventions using user feedback to direct
redesign recommendations, and empirically validate the strengths and effectiveness of
the chosen interve ntion design(s).  In order to identify task and user requirements,
the student will interface with internal NAWCTSD users. 

The second opportunity involves developing and implementing a graphical user interface
(GUI) to allow experimenters to design and experiment with new virtual environment
training interventions.  This Fellow will design, develop, and test a graphics-based
 user interface design and related principles that allow behavioral researchers to readily manipulate elements in a VE simulation.  The Fellow will be expected to perform literature reviews to elicit novel, theoretically rigorous design approaches, identi
fy functional, user, and task requirements, iteratively design the GUI using user feedback to direct redesign recommendations, and empirically validate the strengths, effectiveness, and flexibility of the chosen GUI design and underlying formal methodolog
y.  In order to identify task and user requirements, the student will interface with internal NAWCTSD users.

For more information and fellowship requirements visit
http://ie.engr.ucf.edu/vr_research/home/




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Kay M. Stanney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Central Florida
Industrial Engineering & Mgmt. Systems
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-2450
(407) 823-5582 (voice)
(407) 823-3413 (fax)
stanney@mail.ucf.edu