Introduction to Human-centered Design for AI, 5 credits

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.

Even if you are a seasoned designer or senior product and service developer, you will learn how human-centered design principles play out when using AI-powered technology to create adaptive, autonomous, and agentive services. You will also learn to critically analyze how a human-centered design process can be affected by AI technologies. The course material contains the latest academic research and practical experiences from AI, human-computer interaction, and service innovation.

The aim for this fundamentals course is to introduce the diverse elds of human-centered design and artificial intelligence (AI) to a multidisciplinary target group. The course consists of three parts: