The Network draws on research activity in a range of academic disciplines. Core to these are the following disciplines, with the listed sub-disciplines being of central importance. Click on the links to see summaries of what these areas are about, written by HCSNet student members.

• Arts, Social Sciences, Fine Arts:
  • Music
  • Music Technology
  • Philosophy of language
  • Sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics
  • Theatre and Gesture Studies
  • Digital Media

• Computing and Engineering:
  • Affective computing
  • Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
  • Data mining
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Information retrieval
  • Natural language processing and Language Technology
  • Signal Processing
  • Speech technology

• Linguistics:
  • Conversational and discourse analysis
  • Formal semantics
  • Formal syntax
  • Morphology
  • Phonetics and phonology
  • Sign language
  • Speech science

• Psychology:
  • Auditory Physiology
  • Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Perception
  • Psychoacoustics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Statistics