Virtual Reality Intensive Training Seminar Informational Lunch

VRITS (Virtual Reality Intensive Training Seminar) is a two week, intensive training institute on Immersive Virtual Reality. During this institute (September 8th-22nd, 2004), you will learn how to design and program virtual reality worlds. Furthermore, you will receive instruction concerning the theoretical motivations behind using virtual reality as a methodological tool for social science research. Upon graduation from VRITS, you will be fully capable of designing your own virtual reality simulations as well as applying those simulations towards understanding a theoretical question concerning communication and social science research. The institute will provide you with room and board on campus during the two week institute.

As a VRITS graduate, you will then be paired with one of four Stanford Faculty members: Jeremy Bailenson (Virtual Human Interaction Lab), Jim Fishkin (Center for Deliberative Democracy), Shanto Iyengar (Political Communication Lab), or Cliff Nass (Social Responses to Computing Technology Lab). For the next three quarters (Fall, Winter, and Spring), you will be employed as a paid research assistant for that faculty member for 10 hours per week, at the rate of $11.25 per hour. You will work closely with that faculty member on the design, implementation and analysis level of at least one project.