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Smart Graduate Program Recommender

By Kristin John | Tzu-Chi Huang

May 16, 2025

Smart Graduate Program Recommender

These interconnected projects design an experience demonstrating how generative AI can enable, inform, and facilitate meaningful human-to-human collaboration in decision-making. The projects assist users in choosing a graduate degree program, a deeply personal and consequential decision that often involves navigating uncertainty, conflicting priorities, and input from multiple people. Here, AI serves as a tool that helps guide users in making a decision rather than making it for them. It serves as a mediator and catalyst for dialogue, helping users clarify their goals and understand differing perspectives through conversational interfaces and recommendation systems.

Project Details

  • Class: Interaction Design Workshop
  • Instructor: JoEllen Kames | Jennifer Levin