Within the Department of Human Sciences for Education “Riccardo Massa” of the University of Milan Bicocca, the CESCOM collects researchers highly skilled in academic and applied research with specific regard to the following interdisciplinary topics:

• human communication (models and methods)
• methodology and techniques for research on communicative interaction (coding and analysis of verbal and nonverbal behaviour, both face to face and computer-mediated)
• non verbal communication (voice, facial expression, gesture, gaze, haptics, proxemics and chronemics)
• intercultural communication and multicultural mind training
• serious games and interactive simulations for the training of soft skills
• emotion (emotional expressions and emotion regulation)
• new perspectives on miscommunication (deception, seduction and irony)
• affective computing and e-learning systems
• positive psychology (optimism and resilience)
• sense of presence in mediated environments
• virtual reality for training and therapy