Program Overview

Master's Structure

The Master's in Interaction Technology combines research, design, and entrepreneurship, enabling students to design and develop new interactive technologies and systems that are meaningful to people and society. This program focuses on recognizing and acting upon human challenges and opportunities by creating and evaluating meaningful, intelligent, interactive systems.

What Will You Learn?

As a graduate of this Master's, you will acquire specific scientific knowledge, skills, and values. The program covers:

• Knowledge of methodologies for user-oriented design, including the drafting of user requirements and user studies
• In-depth knowledge in the field of usability engineering
• Understanding of intelligent interaction employing techniques taken from artificial intelligence

Skills and Values

After completing this Master's, you will be able to:

• Think out of the box and find innovative solutions for real-life, societal problems
• Build a prototype and demonstrate that a solution is technologically feasible
• Sell your technological solutions by using storytelling techniques
• You will also value multidisciplinary approaches towards technological innovations and have the ability to identify gaps in your knowledge, with a mindset to enhance and extend your knowledge through research.

Courses

Examples of courses you will follow within this Master's include:

• Brain Computer Interfacing: explaining and applying methods for analysing and classifying brain waves, using EEG technology
• Social Robot Design: using methods from the world of interaction design and applying them in the specific context of Social Robot Design
• Affective Computing: providing an overview of several research areas such as emotion theory, data collection and annotation, vocal and facial expression analysis, machine learning, and social signal processing, and affect generation

Co-decide the Content of Your Master's

You have a great deal of freedom in putting together your own Master's, aligning it with your interests and ambitions. This starts with discussing how to compose a set of courses meeting your specific interests with the programme mentor, while also complying with the coherence of the programme as a whole. You can choose to follow courses or complete your graduation project abroad or incorporate an internship into your Master's.

Career Perspectives

The Master's in Interaction Technology enables you to become the professional you wish to be, with career paths that can include expertise in a certain type of technology, like Artificial Intelligence, language processing, or social robots, or focusing on research and experiment skills for a potential PhD. You might also develop a great business idea and end up starting your own company after graduating.

Related Master's

If you're not sure if this Master's is exactly what you're looking for, you might consider other related master's programs, such as:

• Master's in Computer Science (specialisation in Data Science & Technology)
• Master's in Embedded Systems
• Master's in Psychology (specialisation in Human Factors & Engineering Psychology)
• Master's in Industrial Design Engineering (specialisation in Human Technology Relations)