[Hybrid] Workshop: Designing for the Future: AI User Experience Design

It seems like almost every tool has added AI features. Many early attempts simply copied the popular chat format, leaning on the ability of LLMs to take in textual content and predict future content. But as the models are becoming increasingly multimodal and capable, there is an opportunity for a variety of new types of interfaces that keep the user in control while offering surprising capabilities.

John T. Murray, Associate Professor of Games and Interactive Media at UCF will break down several trends of UX that anticipate and incorporate the current capabilities of generative AI models, and where these might change how users interact with software in the future. He’ll demonstrate a new VR immersive authoring tool he is developing. Following a brief presentation, there will be a hands-on workshop where participants will redesign an existing interface to incorporate AI in different ways: as an agent, using mixed initiative principles and capitalizing on shared context and generating interfaces elements.

Things to bring
There are no prerequisites, and paper and writing supplies will be available for those in-person to prototype ideas in groups. Remote participation is welcome.

Remote attendees
If you are joining online, please be prepared to share your screen with a small breakout zoom room in order to participate in the workshop.

About our Speaker
Murray was co-founder and CEO of an early head-mounted display startup called Seebright, and is coauthor of two books, one of which, Flash: Building the Interactive Web (MIT Press, 2014), investigated the early media platform which empowered a generation of artists and creators to build interactive experiences and distribute them through the internet.

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6:30ish PM - Meet & Greet / Pre-networking (In-person only)
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM - Presentation and Workshop: Designing for the Future: AI User Experience Design
8:30 PM - Then SUX "Social UX Meetup" for more socializing (In-person)
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