另一方面，该博士学位是为那些已经在计算介质中积极工作并希望开发新知识的人们而设计的，这些知识将改变可能的东西以及我们如何理解它。您可能正在从事创举性游戏设计，软件或平台研究，交互式叙述或角色，辅助技术，游戏和情感，社交和具体互动，高度个性化的媒体或其他广泛领域的突破性工作。您可能会对计算媒体的广泛应用感兴趣，从社交支持或个性化学习到情感投入或批评评论。博士 将为您提供跨学科的基础和支持性研究社区，以推动您的工作向前发展。
Computational Media is all around us video games, interactive narrative, dynamic visualizations, smartphone apps, virtual reality, social media, personality-rich robots, individualized health coaching, and more. To create these kinds of media, to deeply understand them, to push them forward in novel directions, requires a new kind of interdisciplinary thinker and maker. The new graduate degrees in Computational Media at UC Santa Cruz are designed with this person in mind. The M.S. is designed to help you build on your existing strengths and move into new areas. The Ph.D., on the other hand, is designed for those who are already actively working in computational media and want to develop new knowledge that will change what is possible and how we understand it. The Ph.D. will provide you with an interdisciplinary foundation and supportive research community for moving your work forward.