Build
Make something useful and role-relevant instead of copying a tutorial artifact.
EducationHuman-centered systems pathway
HUMANAI for HCI
Design intelligence people can understand, steer, and trust.
HUMAN is a five-part framework for designing mixed-initiative systems around human needs, usable uncertainty, accessibility, agency, and longitudinal evidence.
Pathway lead
Alex Chambers
What you leave withDesign and deploy an AI-mediated interaction, test it with people across success and failure states, document agency and harm decisions, and publish a field-study report with limitations.
Required in every masterclass
Create the account. Deploy the work.
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Every learner creates an Alternate Clouds account during class.
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Every learner deploys the course-specific project template—not a generic demo.
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Completion requires a working deployment URL and the proof artifact named in the lesson.
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Every input and output must be original, licensed, public domain, or covered by documented permission.
5 masterclasses
The pathway
01HHuman Needs, Harm, and ContextStart with the human situation, not the availability of a model.02UUsability, Uncertainty, and User ControlMake uncertainty usable and important actions reversible.03MMental Models and Mixed InitiativeHelp people understand what the system can do, what it cannot, and who acts next.04AAccessibility, Agency, and AccountabilityDesign for people who cannot—or should not have to—trust the default.05NNovel Interfaces and Longitudinal EvaluationTest what remains after the novelty wears off.
Final✓The Responsible AI Interaction Field StudyIntegrate the pathway and defend the evidence.
Course completion is not the outcome.
The work has to survive contact with reality.
Break
Test a bounded failure, weak output, inaccessible path, or wrong assumption.
Prove
Publish the decision, evidence, correction, limitation, and working result.
Founding pathway