Student Workers for the PriMa Avatars Project

29 Mar 2022

Conditions

• Start of employment: immediately
• Working hours: 5 - 10 hours per week, can be flexibly organised
• Long-term employment planned

Project PriMa

PriMa (Privacy Matters) is a EU founded project with a focus on the analysis and mitigation of privacy risks in a rapidly digitalising society. In University of Würzburg, our specific research topics are privacy and trust emerging from the interaction between humanoid photorealistic avatars in social VR. Our goal is to improve user experience (UX) focusing on trust, trustworthiness and authenticity, and to come up with a design guideline for the identity management & authentication system in social VR.

Tasks

• Support in conducting studies and demonstrations
• Development and evaluation of social VR prototypes
• Independent literature research for selected topics

We offer

• Interesting and exciting activities in a current research project
• Support of personal development goals
• Flexible working hours and working content
• Insight into the work of the chair

Requirements

In principle, it is possible to familiarize yourself with all processes within the scope of the activities. Previous experience in one or more of the followings would be helpful:

• ability and time flexibility to conduct laboratory experiments
• experience with Unity or other game engines
• multiplayer and networking
• virtual reality

Application and Contact

If you are interested, please send an email to jinghuai.lin@uni-wuerzburg.de, briefly introduce your background and previous experiences, we will then contact you. We are looking forward to your applications!

For further information please also contact Jinghuai Lin.