Media and Interaction Design

University of Bergen

Master

In Bergen (Norway)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Bergen (Norway)

  • Duration

    2 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Media and interaction design is about designing and developing engaging solutions for new media.
You get a highly industry-relevant education that enables you to design prototypes on new media, and evaluate the user experience of both media producers and media users.

Key themes and issues of the study programme include:

What is good interactive media content?
How does the media of the future look like?
How can interaction design and technical solutions help media producers create better media content?
Through the media, the citizens receive information that makes it possible to participate in the public debate. With digital systems, we see an increased demand for new technical solutions and new formats for audience participation and user-generated content.

With this education, you can identify and develop many solutions to the challenges the media has when it comes to better and more efficient workflow.

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Bergen (Norway)
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About this course

Upon completion of the master’s programme, you will have a competence that combines technical development with critical and creative thinking. You gain advanced knowledge within interaction design, and a specialized insight into the field of interaction design for the media.

The study programme provides a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in a project that allows you to combine technical development work and content production related to the media.

Today, most sectors are digitized and there is an increasing awareness about making digital solutions more user friendly. Being able to understand what users need in different situations, and to make solutions for this are skills and knowledge that are increasingly sought after.

Some of the jobs you qualify for with this education:

Interaction Designer
UX Designer
Front-end Developer
Media Entrepreneur
Digital Media Developer

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Media
  • New Media
  • Media Buying
  • Mediation
  • Media Studies
  • Media Advertising
  • Technology
  • Media Technology
  • Development
  • Interaction

Course programme

The Master's Programme in Media and Interaction Design is a two-year full-time study that starts in August.

First semester:

  • MIX301 Media Technology: Theory and Development (15 ECTS)
  • INFO361 Research Topics in Human-Machine Interaction (HCI) (15 ECTS)

Second semester:

  • MIX302 Research Design and Field Studies (30 ECTS)

Third and fourth semester:

  • MIX350 Master Thesis (60 ECTS)

You may conduct the Master's project in collaboration with a media or media technology company. You can contact the company on your own to make arrangements for cooperation, but different companies will also come and present their ideas for master's projects.

  • Four student projects awarded scholarships

The practical work related to the master project can be a prototype of a practical application, but can also be an evaluation of an interactive medium or a production study.

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  • Mediation Postgraduate Degrees
  • Media Advertising Postgraduate Degrees
  • Other Media Postgraduate Degrees
  • Distance learning Other Media Postgraduate Degrees
  • University of Bergen Postgraduate Degrees

Media and Interaction Design

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