Welcome to CSIM! The Interdisciplinary Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media - UPF

This program proposes a truly interdisciplinary context around interactive artifacts that make a solid and coherent use of recent knowledge on cognitive systems, specificities of the diverse interactive media and real-time interactive technologies. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the program we expect all students to embrace the three fields that converge on the master independent of their background field of knowledge.

We would like to see your motivation resonate with this interdisciplinarity and embrace it with great energy and commitment.
We are looking forward to receiving your applications!

Please read the notices at the end of this page.

 

*** What is CSIM and what it is not (find out, click here!) ***

Read also our Frequently Asked Questions, FAQ!!!

Specs Projects Reactable Cancer & Nanotechnology iCub Robot Interactive Slide Ball Game

 

What is CSIM and what it is not

CSIM IS:

 CSIM IS NOT:

* a challenging program with a strong interdisciplinary context where engineering, computer science, robotics, psychology, arts, media studies, linguistics, HCI and neuroscience are blended into a single research and practice field

            

* a program where students coming from humanities and communication will need to know/learn programming, special interfaces and sensors and mathematical tools.

            

* a program where students coming from humanities and technology will need to know/learn about communication and media specificities, generation and structuring of meaning, and social uses of interactive media.

            

* a program where students coming from technology and communication will need to know/learn cognitive psychology, experimental design and statistics.

            

* a program where all students will need to know/learn about the brain and neuroscience.

            

* a full-time program for hard-workers and enthusiastic students.

* is NOT a program on multimedia production

            

* is NOT a program on web design or development nor on Web2.0

            

* is NOT a program on interactive art

            

* is NOT a program on hardcore tools programming

            

* is NOT a program on artificial intelligence techniques

            

* is NOT a program on videogame design and development

            

* is NOT a program on computer animation

            

* is NOT a program on usability

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTICES 

Please Note:  We advise students with a non-technical background to take a course on the essential notions of programming before comming to CSIM. This course only needs be an introduction to programming with the most basic knowledge. We do not require it to be on any programming language in particular, it can be based on: Python, Processing, Action Script, C or C++, Java, Basic, etc. Note that HTML or Flash are not considered programming languages. We do not require a diploma or any other certification, hence the course can be done in an academy, school, on-line, self taught with a book, etc. It is the responsibility of the student to have this basic knowledge when starting the master in order to cope with some of the master's content.

We do not expect students to be expert programmers, but they should have the basic knowledge and be able to program simple algorythms by themselves.