CSCI1951-C

Designing Humanity Centered Robots

Spring 2027

Artificial intelligence is becoming a central tool in professional practices, helping people implement, prototype, and explore new ideas and solutions. Success increasingly requires people to move across traditional boundaries, integrating design methods, technical experimentation, critical evaluation, and domain expertise. This course will help students develop these abilities through a series of design research projects and critical studio sessions. Students will iteratively create and refine prototypes, collaborate with AI systems and one another, and learn to give, receive, and incorporate interdisciplinary critique. We will explore how AI might support responses to real-world problems and the development of prototypes that allow others to experience and evaluate them. Alongside the creation of working prototypes, students will critically examine how technologies embody normative commitments, formalize human judgments, redistribute agency, and participate in shaping people and institutions.

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