Using AI in Research Projects
25mBeginner2024-12-11
Authors

Cory Lebson
Leading Educator and Author in UX
Course details
Join Cory Lebson—a researcher, author, and former UXPA president—as he gives tips and techniques for using generative AI to enhance, extend, and improve research projects of all types.
Cory explains how to look at AI both as something to be researched and as a tool to be leveraged to improve research, as well as how to talk to corporate stakeholders about leveraging AI in your projects. He shares a variety of use cases for AI in research, including how various AI tools can help you prepare for usability studies, conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups, prepare heuristic or expert reviews, analyze qualitative data, and complete accessibility evaluations. Plus, Cory delves into the ethics of AI, explaining what kind of research support is appropriate (and what might be crossing the line).
Cory explains how to look at AI both as something to be researched and as a tool to be leveraged to improve research, as well as how to talk to corporate stakeholders about leveraging AI in your projects. He shares a variety of use cases for AI in research, including how various AI tools can help you prepare for usability studies, conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups, prepare heuristic or expert reviews, analyze qualitative data, and complete accessibility evaluations. Plus, Cory delves into the ethics of AI, explaining what kind of research support is appropriate (and what might be crossing the line).
Skills covered
Artificial Intelligence for DesignChatGPTOpenAIVideoPersonaPhotographyGraphic DesignAnimation and Illustration
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Artificial intelligence for research
1. Doing Research on AI Systems
- 02 - Doing research on AI when it's not AI research
- 03 - Doing research on AI systems
2. Using AI to Improve Research
- 04 - Getting corporate buy-in for using AI
- 05 - General vs research-specific tools
- 06 - AI for heuristic or expert reviews
- 07 - AI for usability study preparation
- 08 - AI for in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group preparation
- 09 - AI for analysis of qualitative data
- 10 - The ethics of using AI in research
Conclusion
- 11 - The future of AI and research
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