CHSEL
Teaching

Courses at the intersection of design, technology, business and psychology.

We offer multidisciplinary courses in collaboration with schools across LUMS, open to students from computer science, business, humanities and the social sciences. Courses are project-based, and the strongest work continues in the lab.

Taught in collaboration with
Syed Babar Ali School of Science & Engineering
Suleman Dawood School of Business
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Syed Ahsan Ali School of Education
01 — Key course
CS 466 / CS 566UndergraduateGraduateOffered every Spring

Human-Computer Interaction

The point of departure is the design of everyday things: the principles behind well-designed artifacts apply equally to interactive systems. The course works through usability and utility, then through the full user-centered design process. A group project running user research, design and evaluation is the focal point.

02 — All courses

What we teach

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CS 360

Software Engineering

Building software in teams: requirements, architecture, process and quality — taught with the user kept firmly in the room.

UndergraduateCoreOffered this yearFall · BS year 3
CS 466 CS 566

Human-Computer Interaction

Usability, utility and the user-centered design cycle, anchored by a semester-long group project with real users. Taken by senior undergraduates and graduate students together.

UndergraduateGraduateOffered this yearSpring · BS year 4, MS & PhD
EDUX 564

Critical Perspective of Artificial Intelligence in Education + Hands on Seminar

A seminar for MPhil students in the School of Education: what AI in education promises, what the evidence shows, and hands-on sessions building and interrogating the tools themselves.

GraduateCross-listedOffered this yearSchool of Education · MPhil
PSY 316 CS 362

Mind Matters — Psychology of AI

Cross-listed between psychology and computer science: how people reason about, trust and are changed by artificial intelligence, and what that means for the systems we build.

UndergraduateCross-listedOffered this yearHSS & SSE
CS 666-V2

Topics in HCI and Design

An advanced topics course on HCI research methods and UX design, for students who want depth in how studies are designed, run and translated into interface decisions.

UndergraduateGraduateOffered this yearSpring · BS year 4, MS & PhD
CS 666

Topics in Interactive Computing

A reading and research seminar on current HCI literature, leading to an original study written up as a conference-format paper.

GraduatePreviously offeredLast offered Spring 2024
BIO · CS PSY

Paradigms in Brain Function

This course aims to give its students a foundational understanding of fundamental paradigms of brain functions. It also explores functional organization of the brain and the hierarchies and constituencies within the mind.

UndergraduateCross-listedPreviously offeredLast offered 2024 · SSE & HSS
MBA/PSI

Product and Service Innovation

An MBA course taught with the business school on the technology and business perspective of product and service design, from opportunity framing to launch.

GraduateCross-listedOffered this yearSDSB · MBA
SDSB/CS Elective

E(Xtreme)-Commerce

E-commerce in low-resource settings and the Global South context: infrastructure, trust, payment and delivery constraints that reshape what a marketplace can be.

UndergraduateGraduateCross-listedPreviously offeredLast offered Summer 2023
CS/HSS Elective

Design Thinking, Technology and Human Behaviour

An open elective for students from any school: how design methods and behavioural insight shape the technology people actually use.

Cross-listedPreviously offeredLast offered Spring 2023
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Want your project to go further?

Take one of our courses, then come and talk to us. Students who want to continue a project join the lab as research assistants and work towards a publication.