3. Designing AI tools

Week 4 (February 16)

Guest speaker presents case study of an AI education startup. Present and discuss initial conjectures. Introduction to HCI design methodologies and user research. Practical considerations and ethics of user research.

Schedule

• 4:15-5:15: Guest speaker.
• 5:20-6:10: Initial conjectures presentations
• 6:15-6:50: Introduce User Research assignment, group work time

• Large Language Models in Education
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. (Snow day)
• 1. Introductions
• 2. How do LLMs work?
• 3. Designing AI tools
• 4. Activity systems: Designing for/in context
• 5. Prototyping
• 6. Needfinding
• 7. Planning a field study
• 8. Qualitative data analysis
• 9. Critiques
• 10. Quantitative data analysis
• 12. Data analysis workshop
• 13. Writing workshop
• 14. LLMs in Education Expo