7. Needfinding

Week 7 (March 9)

Due: B. User research

Assigned: D. Field study

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