6. Needfinding

Week 6 (March 5)

Due: B. User research

Guest speaker. In-class needfinding and concept iteration. Note: Needfinding was originally scheduled for Week 5, but we decided to take more time with user research.

• Large Language Models in Education
• Assignments
• Pre-course survey
• Schedule
• 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
• 11. Open
• 12. Data analysis workshop
• 13. Writing workshop
• 14. LLMs in Education Expo