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Cambridge Basic Research (CBR) has postdoctoral positions beginning in
the summer or fall of 1997 available for research in perception, cognition,
and motor control. The positions are anticipated to be for 2 year periods.
Salaries are competitive. Current studies can be seen on our Web site --
http://pathfinder.cbr.com/ and include wayfinding, navigation, visual
attention, audition,
and decision making.
Established in 1993 by Nissan R&D, Inc., Cambridge Basic Research is
devoted to understanding the 'driving experience' through basic research
in cognition, vision, and motor control. CBR is a unique experiment in
collaboration between industry and academia. Located in Cambridge, Mass.,
CBR maintains close ties with MIT and Harvard University and several other
universities in the Boston-Cambridge area. CBR has a fixed-based driving
simulator, a head-mounted eye-tracker, and graphics workstations.
Positions are available beginning in the summer or fall of 1997,
and are anticipated to be for two year periods. Salaries are
competitive. Please send applications (either by email or surface
mail) to Matthew Beach, Cambridge Basic Research, Nissan Research
& Development, Inc., 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1494.
(email: mbeach@pathfinder.cbr.com)
>> Areas of current research work include:
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>> Mental models in driving (Dr. Jack Beusmans):beusmans@pathfinder.cbr.com
>> Understand interactions between goal-directed behavior, such as driving,
>> and the mental models orchestrating these behaviors. Special focus is on
>> representations of space. A strong background in (visual) psychophysics,
>> and familiarity with C and graphics programming are desirable.
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>> Modeling human driving behavior (Dr. Erwin Boer): erwin@pathfinder.cbr.com
>> Study the decision, control and adaptation mechanisms underlying driving.
>> A background in mathematical modeling and adaptive control as well as
>> hands-on experience in conducting manual control experiments is desired.
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>> Eye movements and driver intentions (Dr. Andy Liu) andy@pathfinder.cbr.com:
>> Study the relationship between eye movements and driver intentions/actions
>> in the context of designing "smart cars". Candidates should have an
>> interest in human-machine interaction and experience with measuring eye
>> movements (pupil-CR systems). Familiarity with 3-D graphics and C/UNIX
>> programming would be very helpful.
>>
>> Scene perception and attention (Dr. Ronald Rensink):
>>rensink@pathfinder.cbr.com
>> Study the control of attention by high-level "interest," and the role of
>> attention in perception and visuomotor control. Candidate should have a
>> background in computational vision and visual psychophysics. Programming
>> experience would be useful, but is not required.
>>
>>
>>
>> ...Ron
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>Akio Kinoshita, Ph.D.
>Director, Research Operations
>Nissan Research & Development, Inc.
>Cambridge Basic Research
>4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
>e-mail: akio@pathfinder.cbr.com
>WWW: http://pathfinder.cbr.com/
>phone: (617) 374-9660 facsimile: (617) 374-9697
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