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                    desiredbackground & role in project:
 | The student on this M.Sc. or Ph.D. project could come from 
                    either a CS / engineering background (with interest in learning 
                    psychological experimental methods) or from Psychology (with 
                    good programming skills and interest in learning at least 
                    simple haptic feedback control methods). Prior familiarity 
                    with haptic feedback and/or robotic controls is a plus, but 
                    not necessary.  The student will undertake a complete thesis research project 
                    related to the topic of subjective perception of haptic 
                    feedback, including literature review, multimodal environment 
                    prototyping (using existing hardware and testing facilities) 
                    and innovative methods of user testing. |