Projects

• To complete the MSc degree you must undertake a project in an area of your choice, worth 60 credits. You will investigate a challenging but constrained computing science problem, and will design, implement, evaluate, and demonstrate a software system.
• The project will integrate subject knowledge and generic skills that you acquire during the MSc program.
• We offer a wide range of projects, and each student is normally allocated a different project. We take your preferences into account when we allocate the projects.
• You will also have the opportunity to propose your own project, subject to academic approval.

Example projects

Here are some typical project titles from recent years:

• Augmented reality iPhone application
• Comparison of matching methods for medical students
• Developing a mobile chess game using Bluetooth
• Drawing editor for digital hardware diagrams
• Economic video game
• Gesture media player
• Improving the facial analysis tool for clinical use
• Mind games: Othello
• Multimodal simulation of string instrument bowing
• System to support real estate valuation
• Tactile navigation system
• Tactile widgets for mobile devices
• Touchscreen accessibility
• Using light for input
• Web-based data miner
• Web-based metabolomics database

Furthermore for students hoping to continue into research, we have four major research sections:

• human computer interaction (GIST)
• formal analysis, theory and algorithms (FATA)
• information, data and analysis (IDA)
• computer systems (GLASS)

Most MSc students choose projects offered by these groups, giving them an opportunity to go on to PhD study. See details of our research.