Computer Scientist/Game Developer
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jena, Germany
You will become part of an interdisciplinary team and play a vital role in ensuring the success of a Momentum project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung that aims to establish a new paradigm in Virtual Reality (VR) to uncover the social dynamics and anticipatory processes in real-time interactions.
Your responsibilities:
- Develop interactive avatars and respective 3D environments for VR research;
- Analyse and process kinematic data to create and animate interactive VR avatars;
- Help build and run a cutting-edge VR laboratory;
- Be involved in developing experiments that allow to examine motor, perceptual and cognitive processes in dyadic, real-time interactions in VR;
- Conduct interdisciplinary research to navigate anticipation research to new frontiers;
- Help publish research articles in quality international, peer-review journals.
Your profile:
- Preferably M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in computer science, game development or in a related field;
- Proficiency with 3D engines (e.g. Unreal Engine, Unity 3D);
- Experience with animation software and 3D modelling;
- Excellent programming skills;
- Prior involvement in research projects is desirable;
- Strong interest in running behavioural research in VR;
- Good communication skills in English (oral and written);
- Scientific enthusiasm and motivation to work within an interdisciplinary research team.
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