Design for Innovation with AI & ML

Catalog description

Product and service innovations are increasingly delivered through digital platforms built on artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular machine learning (ML). The goal of this course is to expose students to methods for understanding the opportunities and challenges that designing with AI and ML foreground. The course adopts a human-centered perspective and systemic approach that considers the impact of these technologies on ethical concerns, sustainability and social innovation. Students will learn skills and techniques for conceptualizing digital platforms that use A.I. and ML to support innovative product-service systems, including design research and prototyping. This will enable students to explore how a diversity of stakeholders can benefit from and contribute to these emerging technologies. Throughout this process, students will reflect on the context in which the ML products and services they propose will be used, and their potential impact on diverse stakeholders.