Designing with Advanced AI

Learning when AI should be used, and when it should not.

MDCMath, Data & ComputingU&SUser & Society

About the course

This course challenged me to justify AI before implementing it. For ConvoKeeper, a dementia care intake and activity planning system, I developed a vector-embedding architecture that matched residents to activities and conversation topics based on personal profiles. Beyond the technical methods, the course instilled a critical habit: asking whether AI genuinely adds value to a design problem rather than simply adding complexity. That question became as important as the architecture itself.

Diagram or screenshot showing the ConvoKeeper intake interaction concept
Screenshot of the ConvoKeeper prototype during a test interaction
ConvoKeeper demo — AI-assisted intake and activity planning for dementia care