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+# Honors Thesis: HRIStudio
+
+This repository contains the source code and LaTeX files for the honors thesis titled **"A Web-Based Wizard-of-Oz Platform for Collaborative and Reproducible Human-Robot Interaction Research"**.
+
+## Project Structure
+
+- **`thesis/`**: Contains the LaTeX source for the thesis document.
+  - **`chapters/`**: Modular `.tex` files for each chapter.
+  - **`out/`**: Directory where the final PDF (`thesis.pdf`) is generated.
+  - **`build/`**: Directory for intermediate build artifacts.
+  - **`Makefile`**: Script to automate the build process.
+- **`proposal/`**: (If applicable) Contains the original thesis proposal.
+
+## Building the Thesis
+
+The project uses `make` to handle the LaTeX build lifecycle (pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex).
+
+### Prerequisites
+- A standard LaTeX distribution (e.g., TeX Live, MacTeX).
+- `make` utility.
+
+### Commands
+
+1.  **Build the PDF:**
+    Navigate to the thesis directory and run `make`.
+    ```bash
+    cd thesis
+    make
+    ```
+    This will generate `thesis.pdf` in the `thesis/out/` directory.
+
+2.  **Clean Build Artifacts:**
+    To remove all temporary files and the generated PDF:
+    ```bash
+    make clean
+    ```
+
+## Author
+Sean O'Connor
+Department of Computer Science
+Bucknell University
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 # LaTeX build artifacts (if they leak into root)
 *.aux
 *.bbl