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<td>Internship Opportunities at the Institute for Creative
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<td>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:00:32 -0800</td>
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<td>Evan A. Suma <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:suma@ict.usc.edu"><suma@ict.usc.edu></a></td>
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<td>Evan A. Suma <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:suma@ict.usc.edu"><suma@ict.usc.edu></a></td>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The MxR Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies is
inviting applications for two paid summer internships. Please feel
free to forward this email to any of your students that may be
interested.<br>
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<b>Research Assistant, Stretching Space in Virtual Reality</b><br>
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This project involves developing and testing new redirected walking
techniques - perceptual illusions that enable users to walk through
expansive immersive virtual environments in relatively limited
physical spaces. Duties will involve brainstorming and rapid
prototyping of novel VR interaction/locomotion techniques,
developing virtual environments using the Unity3D game engine,
running user studies, and analyzing experiment data.<br>
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Preferred Skills: <br>
- Programming in either C++ or C#. <br>
- Familiar with experimental design and user study procedures <br>
- Prior experience with virtual reality technology (e.g.
head-mounted displays, motion tracking) and game engines is
preferredtion tracking, game engines) is preferred. <br>
- Ability to analyze basic statistical data with SPSS (e.g. t-test,
ANOVA) is a plus, but not necessarily required<br>
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<b>Research Assistant, Virtual Human Displays</b><br>
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Research and development of display techniques and technologies for
presenting virtual human characters in immersive environments.
Virtual human characters play an important role in immersive
training, but it is still difficult to realistically represent
virtual characters in terms of visual display, audio, and haptics.
We are particularly interested in developing and refining display
techniques and technologies to better elicit naturalistic social,
cognitive, and emotional reactions in trainees.<br>
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The intern would assist on tasks such as developing new presentation
technologies for virtual characters, implementing virtual human
interaction scenarios, designing and conducting user studies, and
preparing results for publication. Use our lab’s tools, such as the
depth sensing cameras, motion capture systems, head mounted
displays, large projection screens, and a fabrication lab to help
develop new methods of presenting virtual characters. <br>
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Additionally:<br>
- Design and implement new interaction scenarios with virtual human
characters to test those new presentation techniques and
technologies.<br>
- Help design and conduct user studies investigating human-virtual
human interaction.<br>
- Help derive and present results for publication for a relevant
conference or journal. <br>
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Preferred Skills: <br>
- Familiarity with Unity or similar game engines. <br>
- Programming experience in languages like C/C++, C#, or Python. <br>
- Development experience with Android or iPhone iOS is a plus. <br>
- Prior experience with conducting and designing human subjects
research is a plus.<br>
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There are also many other internships available with other groups at
the ICT. More details can be found at: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://ict.usc.edu/internships">http://ict.usc.edu/internships</a><br>
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The deadline to apply is February 19, 2012.
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Evan A. Suma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Institute for Creative Technologies
University of Southern California
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.evansuma.com">www.evansuma.com</a></pre>
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