OLC CreaTe HMI; 15 February 2011;
Agenda item 5b (HMI Curriculum)
Curriculum changes HMI
The HMI curriculum in 2011-2012 will have the same structure and the same requirements as it had last
year (2010-2011).
However, there will be an additional option for students to fulfil the requirements.
HMI plans to enter into a double degree agreement with the University of Trento (Italy). This would mean
that students can take two Master’s degrees by a single programme of study. The degrees would be MSc in
Human Media Interaction on the Dutch side, and The UNITN Master in Cognitive Science (Language and
multimodal interaction) on the Italian side. See http://international.unitn.it/mcs/lmi-language-and-multimodalinteraction
For Dutch students who aim at this double degree it would mean the following:
They first study one year in Enschede, and then the second year in Trento.
They have to fulfil all the requirements of the HMI programme, but to do so, they can take courses in
Trento. The list below shows how Trento courses fit into the HMI categories.
Computer Ethics is mandatory and must be taken in Enschede.
The HMI-project is mandatory and has to be done in Enschede.
The Final project is done in Trento. For the Final Project there is joint supervision from Twente and Trento.
We still have to see how to deal with Research Topics in Twente and the mandatory items in Trento.
To take two degrees students will have to be registered at two universities at the same time. Probably they
will have to pay an additional fee of €800,-- to achieve this.
The final version of the proposal will be discussed in the programme committee when the Teaching and
Examination Regulations 2011-2012 are on the agenda. At this moment I ask the committee to give its first
opinion on this Double Degree option, and the Twente-Trento cooperation.
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 Research design (6 EC, mandatory): category “Human Computer Interaction”. The course is broad and
(among others) covers research ethics.
 Machine learning (6 EC, mandatory): category “Artificial Intelligence”.
 Topics in Cognitive Psychology (8 EC, mandatory): category “Man, Media and Society”.
 Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience (8 EC, mandatory): category. “Natural Interaction”.
 Language Resources and Ontologies (5 EC, mandatory): category “Natural Interaction”, mainly on the
ground that the HMI courses Speech and Language Processing are put there.
 Intro to HCI (6 EC, elective): category “Human Computer Interaction”.
 Multimodal Systems (6 EC, elective): category “Media Technology”.
 Intro to AI (6 EC, elective): category “Artificial Intelligence”.
 Knowledge Representation (6 EC, elective): category “Artificial Intelligence”.
 Text Processing Applications (6 EC, elective): category “Natural Interaction”.
 Computational vision (6 EC, elective): category “Media Technology”.
 Prototyping Interactive Systems (6 EC, elective): category “Human Computer Interaction”.
 Cognitive Linguistics (6 EC, elective): category “Natural Interaction”.
 Digital Libraries (6 EC, elective): category “Media Technology”.
 Intro to Human Language (6 EC, elective): category “Natural Interaction”.
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 Intro to Programming Using Perl (6 EC, elective): does not really fit any HMI category.
 Mathematics and Statistics (6 EC, elective): does not fit any HMI category.