Acronym
imec-mict-ugent
Duration
19 December 2004 → Ongoing
Group leader
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Adaptive agents and intelligent robotics
- Human-computer interaction
- Virtual reality and related simulation
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Humanities and the arts
- Design innovation
- Design practice
- Design research
- Digital and interaction design
- Sustainable design
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Social sciences
- Consumer psychology
- Engineering psychology
- Cognitive processes
- Social behaviour and social action
- Cultural economics, economic sociology, economic anthropology
- Innovation and technology management
- Consumer behaviour
- Communication research methodology
- Media and communication policy
- Media and communication theory
- Political economy of communication
- Health communication
- Science communication
- Human information behaviour
- Social and community informatics
- Digital media
- Media audience research
- Media research methodology
- Media sociology
- Research, science and technology policy
- Social policy
- Social change
- Sociology of child, adolescence and youth
- Human-centred design
- Strategic design
- Systems design
- Other product development not elsewhere classified
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Medical and health sciences
- Behavioural neuroscience
- Cognitive neuroscience
- Behavioural sciences
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Engineering and technology
- Smart cities
- Interactive and intelligent systems
- Human-centred and life-like robotics
- Rehabilitation engineering
- Human-centred design
- Strategic design
- Systems design
Description
The interdisciplinary imec research group for Media, Innovation and Contemporary Technologies (mict) is part of the department of Communication Sciences (Faculty of Political & Social Scriences) and the department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Product Design (Faculty of Engineering & Architecture) at Ghent University and the research group Product Development at the University of Antwerp.
The research group has the mission to empower people in a digitizing society. We study and shape how humans, society and technology interact, to inspire people, organisations and policymakers in creating more sustainable futures.
The research group is based in De Krook, the epicenter of digital media innovation in Flanders. The architectural hotspot is a bustling meeting place between science, digital technology, entrepreneurship, media, culture and arts.