Special Topics Research Seminar (525-0-6)

Topic

Speculative Design for Human-AI Communication

Instructors

Duri Lucille Lampe Long

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 3417: Mon 8:30AM - 11:20AM

Overview of class

In this course, students will explore issues related to human-AI communication and collaboration through weekly readings and design prompts. Students will engage in speculative and critical design activities where they imagine future possibilities and alternate trajectories for human-AI interaction. This is a good course for graduate students interested in learning about speculative design as a research methodology and/or thinking critically and creatively about human-AI interaction.

Class Materials (Required)

Dunne and Raby, Speculative Everything
Simon Natale, Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test
Arturo Escobar, Designs for the Pluriverse

Class Attributes

Graduate Students Only