Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Responsible Machine Learning, Center for Aging and Longevity Studies and Mind & Machine Inteligence.
Director of the Human-AI Integration Lab (HAL-UCSB)
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Designing Interactive Human-AI Systems in XR to Augment Human Potential
We think of human potential as each person's unique capacity for self-actualization and aim to design human-AI systems for eudaimonia.
As AI decouples intelligence from consciousness, as XR transforms perception, and as matter becomes machine manipulable, three questions about the future arise:
- What will newer AI-infused Interfaces look like where digital bits occupy space and algorithms have faces?
- How do we design seamless Human-AI Interaction techniques to embed AI into real world tasks and learning activities?
- How will Interactive human-AI systems transform us and enrich our lives?
To answer these questions, our current work focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXtended Reality (virtual, augmented and mixed reality or XR). We take an interaction-design driven approach to understand, engineer and evaluate novel human-AI systems that augment human potential (physical, cognitive, social and emotional capabilities).