The project applies cognitive psychology to the question of how feedback and information should be designed to allow consumers of electricity to obtain as good control as possible of their electricity consumption. The research involves psychological laboratory experiments and computational modeling.
Qualifications: The applicant must have a basic university degree with psychology as a major subject.
Selection: The selection will be based on an assessment of the applicant’s aptitude for successful completion of graduate studies, made by the professors at the department. The bases for this judgment are the previously written research thesis, interviews (if deemed necessary), and finally, the plan for a research project.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 24 January 2011
