MULTICOM is the first master’s degree in the data science of human multimodal communication. The program focuses on the connection between language, thought, and the different modalities of communicative behavior: gesture, gaze, facial expression, pose, speech articulation, prosody, and more.

MULTICOM integrates humanities, multimodality, data science, and technology. Along with the relevant theories, methods, and statistical and computational techniques, students are trained to combine and influence the key technologies in multimodal data science, such as large language models, body pose detection, automatic speech analysis, eye tracking, motion capture, or articulography. While candidates are expected to have a strong background in language and related disciplines, only basic quantitative skills are required for admission.

MULTICOM is an Erasmus Mundus joint degree, co-funded by the European Union and co-awarded by the universities of Murcia (Daedalus Lab) in Spain, Lund (Humanities Lab) in Sweden, and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Big-Data Linguistics) in Germany.

We have a growing list of associated partners collaborating in teaching, supervision, internships, and training events: the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Netherlands-Germany), Tobii (Sweden), Qualisys (Sweden), Fraunhofer IIS (Germany), The Red Hen Lab (international consortium), Radboud University (Netherlands), Case Western Reserve University (USA), University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), University of Warwick (UK).