Interactive Media Design

The first semester provides you with in-depth knowledge of the design and staging of multimodal human-machine interaction in prototypical, experimental applications. Taking into account information perception and information processing by humans.

In the second semester, you will successfully apply the skills you've acquired in your research and design project, as well as in the interaction design workshops and in game design. You will classify the results achieved in a scientifically and economically reflective manner.

In the thesis semester, you'll work independently on a design-related question on the topic of interactive media. The individual supervision offered by the faculty's lecturers ensures that you successfully complete your thesis and can then give yourself the title, Master of Arts.

You need a relevant bachelor's degree. You should also feel at home in the world of media and already have a good understanding of the various areas of planning, design and production of interactive media. Send us three samples of your work. These work samples should be your own work from the broad spectrum of interactive media: This can be design, research and implementation from the areas of user experience design, interface design, interaction design or Internet of Things, for example. More information in our admission regulations.

If you are a graduate of a university degree programme or come from abroad and only have 180 ECTS points from your first degree, HFU will offer you a supplementary/transitional course.

If you have not yet received your degree certificate, please apply with a current transcript of records containing a provisional overall grade. You can usually obtain a current transcript of records from your university's examination office. Certified copies of your final degree certificate and your university entrance qualification (Abitur or similar) must be submitted at the latest when you enrol.

During the Interactive Media Design programme, you can deepen your previous knowledge from a media-related degree course in three semesters. 
The informal environment at Furtwangen University and the personal contact with lecturers offer you an ideal environment for this. We are happy to help you with the individual planning of your master's degree. We'll also find a solution for your family and career together.

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The design project is a unique feature of the Interactive Media Design master's. Over the course of an entire semester, you will gain experience in project management. Here you will learn the scientific and methodological approach and processing methods (structuring, information procurement including citation, preparation, documentation, conception and production). The projects are offered and supervised by our professors.