User Experience Design for AI

About this programme

The courses is for professionals and part of the programme MAISTR (hh.se/maistr) where participants can study the entire programme or individual courses. The course is part of the course track human-centered design and is held online in English. The course is part of the programme MAISTR (hh.se/maistr) where participants can take the entire programme or individual courses. The course is for professionals and is held online in English. Application is open as long as there is a possibility of admission. The courses qualify for credits and are free of charge for participants who are citizens of any EU or EEA country, or Switzerland, or are permanent residents in Sweden. More information can be found at antagning.se. This course is for students and professionals who want to understand the challenges and opportunities that artificial intelligence agents and components bring to the design of experiences. The course covers the conceptual and practical issues of designing with AI as an agent shaping the user’s environment and as a design material: it introduces the basic principles for human-AI interaction and human-AI collaboration; it describes product- and interface-level best practices for AI-enhanced experiences using textual, gestural, voice, and environmental interfaces; it discusses the human-AI relationship in respect to cognitive and algorithmic bias, the building and maintaining of trust, and ways to prevent or fix the potential misalignment between human and software actors.