MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design
Enhance your user experience design by incorporating state-of-the-art HCI concepts.
Start date
01 October 2025
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
8–10 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
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Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has greatly advanced over time and has the potential to transform our experiences with technology by creating more intuitive, simple, and powerful digital interactions.
The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed an online short course, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design, enabling you to reflect on current user and computer interaction. Eight MIT CSAIL experts have devoted their research efforts to improving HCI and making that research available through this online program, allowing you to apply it to UX and UI design.
Through their expertise, you'll have the chance to envision the future of HCI by considering non-traditional interaction, speech recognition, and rapid prototyping, among other topics. Over six weeks of online study in this MIT UX design course, you'll examine technology's real-world applications to enhance UX and UI design and integrate future-focused HCI into your work beyond the interface.
Is this course for you?
This human computer interaction course is tailored to individuals seeking to enhance their understanding of the most recent HCI research as part of their professional development or considering a career change in human-computer interaction. Industry UX designers can also benefit from examining HCI concepts and practical applications, allowing them to design superior interface designs.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has greatly advanced over time and has the potential to transform our experiences with technology by creating more intuitive, simple, and powerful digital interactions.
The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed an online short course, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design, enabling you to reflect on current user and computer interaction. Eight MIT CSAIL experts have devoted their research efforts to improving HCI and making that research available through this online program, allowing you to apply it to UX and UI design.
Through their expertise, you'll have the chance to envision the future of HCI by considering non-traditional interaction, speech recognition, and rapid prototyping, among other topics. Over six weeks of online study in this MIT UX design course, you'll examine technology's real-world applications to enhance UX and UI design and integrate future-focused HCI into your work beyond the interface.
Is this course for you?
This human computer interaction course is tailored to individuals seeking to enhance their understanding of the most recent HCI research as part of their professional development or considering a career change in human-computer interaction. Industry UX designers can also benefit from examining HCI concepts and practical applications, allowing them to design superior interface designs.
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What will set you apart
The ability to integrate HCI thinking into your own work, building on your current knowledge of user experience (UX) to explore new possibilities.
Access to the forward-thinking research of eight industry experts that is changing the face of human-computer interaction.
The ability to better understand speech and vision tools through examples like eye-tracking and gaze-following technologies.
Unlimited access to edX's Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
The essence of interaction design
Module 2
Natural interaction
Module 3
Collaborative computer interaction
Module 4
Intelligent user interfaces and prototyping
Module 5
Multimedia, speech, and vision in computer interaction
Module 6
The future directions of user interaction
Faculty Directors
Daniela Rus
Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Daniel Jackson
Professor of Computer Science, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT CSAIL
About the certificate
Acquire knowledge on how HCI can improve UX design and earn an official MIT xPRO certificate.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.Acquire knowledge on how HCI can improve UX design and earn an official MIT xPRO certificate.
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