Human Centered Design Courses

Leveraging Social Theories to Enhance Human-AI Interaction

Explores challenges in human-AI partnerships, focusing on interpretability tools' limitations and cognitive heuristics. Proposes incorporating social theories to improve decision-support systems and human-AI interaction.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Rethinking Design for Accessibility

Explores innovative approaches to accessibility in technology design, emphasizing collaborative, situated, and enacted perspectives. Presents case studies that challenge traditional views and highlight social and political dimensions.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Towards Trusted Human-Centric Robot Autonomy - Stanford Seminar

Exploring human-centric robot autonomy: balancing safety and fluency in interactions. Insights on data-driven safety concepts and legible robot behavior for prosocial human-robot engagement.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Replication Strategies for More Robust Human Simulation - Stanford Seminar

Exploring replication strategies to enhance robustness of human behavior simulations using Large Language Models, focusing on perturbation and iteration techniques.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

When Design Equals Planning - Computational Approaches to Robot Design

Exploring the intersection of robot design and planning, this seminar discusses computational approaches to simplify design processes and make formal statements about design feasibility across various robotic systems.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Engineering Design Optimization - Linear Constrained Optimization

Explore mathematical and algorithmic fundamentals of optimization for engineering systems design, covering linear and non-linear problems with emphasis on multidisciplinary applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Human Factors of Formal Methods - Stanford Seminar

Exploring human-centered approaches to improve formal methods' usability in software development, addressing cognitive challenges and misconceptions to enhance adoption by non-experts.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Human-Centered AI for Mental Health Prediction in Social Media Data

Exploring human-centered machine learning for ethical and compassionate mental health predictions on social media, combining Media Studies and Computer Science approaches.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The State of Design Knowledge in Human-AI Interaction

Exploring challenges and progress in designing intelligent interactive systems, focusing on user control, mental models, and cognitive engagement with AI-powered interfaces.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Explaining Model Decisions and Fixing Them Through Human Feedback

Explore algorithms for explaining deep network decisions, building user trust, incorporating domain knowledge, learning grounded representations, and correcting unwanted biases in AI models.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Assignment Control Plots for Causal Inference Study Design - Rocky Aikens

Explore visual tools for causal inference study design, focusing on assignment-control plots to analyze covariate distribution and improve observational and experimental studies.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Rethinking Architecture Design for Data Heterogeneity in FL - Liangqiong Qu

Explores innovative architecture designs for federated learning in medical AI, focusing on Transformers to address data heterogeneity challenges and improve model performance across diverse healthcare institutions.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Time Before Birth: A Look at Developing Human Brain

Explore the developing human brain before birth through advanced imaging techniques and machine learning models, offering insights into fetal neurodevelopment and potential clinical applications.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Human-Machine Symbiosis in Data Visualization

Exploring human-machine configurations for data visualization tasks, focusing on interactive analysis of event sequence data and visualization authoring through manipulable semantic components.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Urban Interaction: Notes on Human-Computer Interaction in Cities - Stanford Seminar

Explore urban interaction challenges in HCI through innovative research projects. Gain insights on culture, scale, and engagement in city contexts for developing socially appropriate technologies.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video