Interactive Media Theory and Design

Catalog description

Examines cognitive, emotional, social, and physiological processing of interactive media and effects of these media on users' learning, decision-making, skills, and behavior. Students will learn and apply research findings and theories of communication, psychology, and human-computer interaction to understand how people interact with computer-based media (delivered via web, mobile technologies, virtual reality, robots, video games, social networks) during leisure time and at work, and how to design media content to best serve various user needs and interests.