Human-Machine Communcation (MSc)

 

 

How can we model human task performance? How do our brains combine visual and auditory information? What is the ideal interface for a tired air traffic controller?

In this programme you will try to find answers to fundamental questions in cognitive science and use these answers to design applications.  

The Master’s degree programme in Human-Machine Communication focuses on Cognitive Science and its applications. By knowing more about cognition you can for example improve the communication between humans and complex computer systems, by using language and speech technology or by developing simulation models of users. Human-Machine Communication (HMC) is aimed at providing you with fundamental insights into human cognition and at teaching you how to use this knowledge in applied settings, such as tutoring systems, speech technology and human-computer and human-robot interaction.

Two questions form the basis for this programme:

• How does human cognition work?
• And how can we use that knowledge in applied settings?

To answer these questions, you have to know how humans perform specific tasks and how characteristics of and limitations affect task performance. We need to know about learning: how do humans acquire new skills and how do they learn to adapt to a new task? Finally it is important to know in which way information is transferred. The most natural way of human  communication is through language. Can machines communicate in this way too? Or are other means of communication, such as keyboard, choice menu or multi-touch screen better suited?

  

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