Human-AI Interaction

3 credits

Recent advances in generative AI are bringing these technologies into everyday life, changing how people learn, work, and communicate. This course introduces fundamental ideas and principles underlying human-AI interaction design. We will cover topics from human-computer interaction and machine learning literature, including mental models, mixed-initiative interaction, and key issues like fairness, explainability, and safety. Students will learn to design interactions that help people understand and guide AI behavior, and to build and evaluate interactive applications such as conversational interfaces, multimodal generative AI tools, and AI agents through hands-on assignments and projects.