The Future of Digitalization — Design Trade-offs between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Centered Design

Abstract: The Future of Digitalization is not out there to be discovered — it will be designed. In design, trade-offs are universal because there are no best solutions independent of goals, objectives, and values, specifically for systemic, ill-defined, and wicked problems such as Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centered Design.Grounded in research activities from a broad spectrum of different disciplines and an analysis from our research over the last two decades, the presentation will critically analyze the current hype about Artificial Intelligence by contrasting it with the objectives pursued by Human-Centered Design.

Background Reading: Fischer, G. (2018) “Design Trade-Offs for Quality of Life ” ACM Interactions XXV.1 (January + February 2018), pp. 26-33. http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p26-fischer-wcover.pdf

Biography: Gerhard Fischer is a Professor Adjunct and Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a member of the Computer Human Interaction Academy (CHI; 2007), a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM; 2009), and a recipient of the RIGO Award of ACM-SIGDOC (2012). In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His research has focused on new conceptual frameworks and new media for learning, working, and collaborating, human-centered computing, and design. His recent work is centered on quality of life in the digital age, social creativity, meta-design, cultures of participation, design trade-offs, and rich landscapes for learning.

Publications at: http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/wordpress/people/home-folders/gerhard-fischers-home-page/gerhard-fischers-papers/

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Fischer_(professor) 

Thursday March 19, 2020 at 3:30 PM in Thorvaldson 159

Doors Open at 3:00 PM