Qualification Goals of the M. Sc. Interaction Research and Design

By completing the specialised modules, graduates have acquired the following skills:

Scientific or design qualification and the ability to engage in a qualified employment.

Design

Graduates can use their advanced explicit expert knowledge to analyse and evaluate the human-centred aspect of product design. They can actively contribute the design skills they have acquired to the human-centred development of product ideas/prototypes within the scope of projects.
Graduates have acquired comprehensive, advanced knowledge in the field of agile product development, which enables them to analyse and evaluate products as well as to develop their own ideas and implementation options.
Graduates combine interdisciplinary design aspects with technological knowledge in order to develop future-oriented technologies.
With their extensive in-depth knowledge of design languages and communication processes, graduates are able to integrate interaction and participation concepts into the design of products.
Graduates have in-depth knowledge of analysing and evaluating interface concepts, their visual design and multivocal communication. They can apply these skills independently in the development of projects.
Graduates are able to apply the design skills they have acquired in a practical manner in projects with co-operation partners from business and industry, as they have demonstrated in project modules.

Empiricism

Graduates reflect a solid psychological knowledge that is of particular relevance for the design of future human-technology interactions. They are able to specifically address the psychological processes of perception, emotion and cognition and are familiar with the underlying biological mechanisms of these phenomena. In addition, they are able to apply sound knowledge in the areas of personality and social psychology.
Graduates can use primary literature to access the current state of research in a key scientific area, reflect on and evaluate this and develop independent research questions.
Graduates are able to apply in-depth methodological knowledge from the fields of computer science and psychology to carry out and evaluate empirical studies.
Graduates are able to explain advanced knowledge in the basic disciplines of psychology.
Graduates are familiar with the basics of qualitative and quantitative research approaches in psychological research.
Graduates are able to outline an overview of cognitive processing from a basic and application-oriented perspective and can use this knowledge to systematically research and apply cognitive phenomena.

Computer Science

Graduates are able to apply an advanced and differentiated inventory of methods (also from the disciplines of design and empiricism) in the development of solutions to challenges in the field of computer science.
Graduates are able to analyse and interpret different computer science teaching perspectives and their terminology, strengths and weaknesses.
Graduates can independently draw on interdisciplinary problem-solving strategies and thus further develop the current state of research. In particular, they have shown in their final thesis that they can independently design a comprehensive research project in which they apply the knowledge they have learnt using research methods to a research question in the field of computer science, taking into account generally recognised principles of good scientific practice.
Graduates are familiar with in-depth principles of computer science and can also draw on design and empirical principles and integrate these into the interdisciplinary development of computer science.
Due to their in-depth, interdisciplinary knowledge, graduates are particularly able to develop solutions for complex, imprecisely defined tasks and to evaluate corresponding designs according to the state of the art. To this end, they also utilise unusual methods such as speculative design.
Graduates are able to assess the limits of current research and technology and derive development potential for the future from this.

Personal Development

Graduates are able to make scientifically sound decisions, taking into account interdisciplinary, human-centred, technological, regulatory and ethical aspects. They are able to shape social processes critically, reflectively and with a sense of responsibility and democratic community spirit.
Graduates are able to work together with representatives of other disciplines on an interdisciplinary basis and find a common language. This helps them to solve tasks responsibly and to integrate the interest groups involved, taking into account the respective group composition.
Graduates are familiar with the interdisciplinary rules of good scientific practice and know how to integrate them into the development of new ideas.
As a result of their interdisciplinary training, graduates are able to independently develop possible solutions and adapt them to social backgrounds.
Graduates have developed an interdisciplinary professional self-image and can utilise their specialist, methodological and social skills within the framework of professional values. They are able to expand their skills through criticism by implementing them in their own actions.
Graduates are able to work on information technology problems in a team-oriented manner, develop solutions and act in accordance with the basic understanding of democracy.
Graduates are able to act responsibly within the framework of project management in a goal-orientated manner, taking social and economic requirements into account.
Graduates can realistically assess their own abilities, have developed concrete ideas about how they would like to develop professionally and can independently acquire extensive specialised knowledge in a goal-oriented manner.

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