Conversational AI & Voice Interaction

CS-E400209

Special Course in Computer Science Conversational AI & Voice Interaction

As an interdisciplinary graduate seminar this course introduces fundamental principles, techniques, and methods for designing, prototyping, and evaluating systems using conversational AI and/ or voice interaction. Such systems may leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP), dialogue modeling, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), generative AI, speech recognition, and synthesis.

In this course, students gain an understanding of how to apply these methods through critical literature in the field, domain-specific case studies, and hands-on tutorials for project-based learning, participatory design, and user experience evaluation. The course will support the design of responsible and ethical conversational AI systems for human-centered interaction in applied domains such as healthcare, customer service, and playful interaction contexts, with diverse users including children, migrants, and people with special needs.

This is a highly interactive class: you’ll be expected to actively participate in activities, projects, assignments, design critiques, and discussions. Course content will be tailored to students with different backgrounds and levels of experience. The course is only offered in-person at Aalto University, though students at other Finnish universities should be able to register for it. We welcome students and industry practitioners from different disciplines including science/engineering, business, arts/design, architecture, humanities and social sciences. 

The course will leverage and contribute in many ways to our ongoing work in the Trust M consortia research project with Tampere University, University of Helsinki and the City of Espoo.

Please fill out the course Pre-survey (by March 20).