Intelligent Human-Computer Interactions

MSc/PhD course 2025/26/2


Course admin ppt, agenda, Coursera4SzTE

Videos and PPTs

Stanford: Introduction to Human-Computer Interactions (4 mins)

Design of AI product experiences (2 mins)

only optionalPersonal Superintelligence

only optionalRay Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology (2005) (23 mins)

Design Thinking Process (15 mins) or in reading material

The Power of Prototyping (14 mins)

Evaluating Designs (12 mins)

Needfinding Strategies (12 mins)

Personas

Design Heuristics (20 mins)

Mental models in web UX

only optionalMore Design Heuristics (17 mins)

only optionalSpotify: The complex relationship between data and design in UX (11 mins)

Humans, not Users: Why UX is a Problem (12 mins)

AI UX considerations (4 mins)

Input technologies and techniques, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, Ch 9 (pages 138-147)

Sensors and sensing modes, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, Ch 10 (pages 154-159)

Design considerations in recognition-based systems, Human Computer Interaction Handbook, Ch 10 (pages 166-170)

only optionalWill smartwatches replace smartphones?

Why Google Glass failed (4 mins)

only optionalTechnology that knows what you're feeling

Brain-Computer Interfaces intro (13 mins)

Clinical applications of Brain-Computer Interfaces (17 mins)

only optionalNeuralink in 2026 (17 mins)

Design solutions for smart homes through user-centered scenarios

only optionalMark Zuckerberg: Building Jarvis

Introduction to Ambient Assisted Living

Self-driving cars intro (12 mins)

Safety assurance for self-driving vehicles (16 mins)

Robot-human safety measures (16 mins)

Social Robotics (8 mins)

Turing Test and AI Creativity (7 mins)

Large Language Models (special focus on Ch 7.7!)

Post training only Ch 9.1 and 9.4

Masked Language Models

only optionalThe NLP book

only optionalGet Ready for the Great AI Disappointment

[LLM finetuning colab notebook]

Chatbots and Dialogue Systems (PPT)

only optionalClimbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (13 mins)

IBM Watson and the Jeopardy! challenge (4 mins)

Microsoft's chatbot started tweeting racist messages

Conversation flow design (3 mins)

Multi turn dialouges (6 mins)

UX for AI conversation (3 mins)

only optionalConversation Design for Chatbots & Voice Assistants

Speech Recognition and Synthesis (3 mins)

[DialogFlow]

All videos of RAG overview (8+1+5+4+5+9+1=33 mins)

Retriever (3 mins)

Metadata filtering (4 mins)

Semantic search (7 mins)

Evaluating retriever (8 mins)

Chunking (6 mins)

Handling hallucinations (7 mins)

Evaluating LLMs in RAG (5 mins)

RAG evaluation techniques (7 mins)

Custom RAG evaluation (5 mins)

only optionalBuilding and evaluating RAGs (1 hour short course)

Agentic AI (12 mins)

When to (and not to) use AI Agents (5 mins)

Tool calling for LLMs (4 mins)

Actions to LLMs (4 mins)

Tool use examples (8 mins)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) (4 mins)

Chatbot project

PoC and MVP