Hochschule Bremen - University of Applied Sciences

Two instances assure directly the relevance of the study program for professional practice in industry and research: first the significance of the master’s project for the study program; second the research activities of the staff members and their cooperation with partners from industry and research scaffolding all courses of the program.

1. The master’s project is a core element of the study program. The project bundles what the students have learned until then and even more: the students enter unknown terrain and develop together the goals of the project. During two semesters, the project's participants will go through the whole development cycle of a complex system or artifact that tries to solve a real-world problem: fundamental research, problem analysis, system design, implementation, installation and evaluation. The application's problem domain is chosen in order to touch many different aspects of current digital media.   It is important to note that master's projects are highly self-organized: Professors and assistants will supervise, guide and help you, but they will usually not instruct you what to do specifically. As a result, student's participants of a project will not only learn about the given subject areas, but they will also become acquainted with social dynamics, project managements and other topics that typically arise in real-life projects - a valuable experience for future work and life.
2. The researchers of the Digital Media Group at the Hochschule Bremen are focusing on issues revolving around mobile gaming, which emphasizes the core areas of ubiquitous computing: mobile and pervasive computing. Research projects combine applied research in mobile game design, experience design, augmented reality, networking, services and software engineering with application-oriented basic research in the fields of hardware-accelerated graphic algorithms and modeling ubiquitous interaction. The researchers of our group work in close collaboration with industries, public and research institutions in the region, as well as with international partners.