Teaching

2025 Advanced Design of Interactive Systems

Professors
Year
Trimester
Level

Janin Koch, Inria Lille
Xiaohan Peng, Université Paris-Saclay

2025
T3
M1, M2, PhD

Advanced Design of Interactive Systems builds upon the Introductory Design course, but emphasizes on how to design interactive systems to support human-AI interaction.

About

The Intro DOIT course is a prerequisite for the Advanced DOIT course. The former values speed and effective collaboration, while providing a quick overview of a complete set of interaction design methods. The latter builds upon the techniques in the introductory course, but explores in more depth human interaction as well as how to support interaction with intelligent systems.

Grading is based on your ability to identify key design problems from the user's perspective when interacting with generative systems, such as ChatGPT or DallE, and your creativity in generating a solution inspired by design principles, especially co-adaptation and instrumental interaction.

The class will be divided into groups of three or four. You will be asked to create a novel interactive system that is designed to support an extreme user of generative AI applications to provide more means for control and expression.

As in the Intro DOIT course, you will be asked to find out as much as you can about the problems users currently face, and then design and video prototype an original solution that addresses their needs. You will also revise it based on the results of a generative walkthrough.

Schedule

The course meets on Thursday afternoons from 14:00 to 17:00, room E212 in building PUIO (not Lumen!) beginning on 9 January and ending on 20 February.

Note that students must be present for the final presentations on the last day of class.

Overview:
9 January : Introduction
16 January : Understanding Human Cognition
23 January : Agency in Human-AI Interaction
30 January : Iterating on Design
6 February : Evaluating interactive Systems
13 February : Reflection on the role of design in Human-AI interaction
20 February : Final presentation

 
 

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