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Digital Interactive Entertainment (DIE)

Specific competences to:

• analyse, critically evaluate, compare and process complex problems involving interactive applications, with particular emphasis on entertainment
• independently and in groups, deal with development situations in which existing mathematical and psychological models, as well as experimental hardware, are combined in a new way in order to analyse and synthesise new entertainment products

Specific skills in:

• programming as part of a development team capable of producing games or similar interactive entertainment products
• applying, implementing and evaluating mathematical and psychological models for analysis, synthesis and simulation
• reporting back on analyses, implementations and evaluations, including explaining the limitations on the use of specific models and choices made during the modelling of a tangible problem
• formulating and evaluating hypotheses about human use of interactive entertainment systems that can be tested experimentally, including planning for, conducting and disseminating the results of the experiments.

Specific knowledge of:

• numerical methods for data analysis, modelling and simulation
• methods of representation and visualisation of virtual worlds
• the organisation of games-development groups, including both the typical roles and special role of the programmer
• factors in the interaction between humans and machines
• conducting and evaluating experiments involving humans.

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