The HCI International 2023 conference aimed to discuss, reflect and debate the evolving pedagogical aspects of Design in the context of socio-cultural and technological changes.

The landscape of Design in India is very unique due to India's craft and cultural heritage, indigenous design knowledge. India is also now promoting Make in India, Design in India, the Design challenges are immense and the future of design seems to be multifaceted for which the design pedagogy need to strengthen itself for the future. The conference invites papers in the areas of Design teaching and learning from the perspectives of technology, culture and heritage.

My paper titled "Revolutionizing Design Education: AI-Powered Design-Thinking for Tomorrow's Innovators" was under the Track A: Design Knowledge Transformation

This paper describes an approach to integrating Design-Thinking (DT) andUser-Centered Design Process (UCD) activities into a process that is facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) for improved collaboration and data-driven decisionmaking at a faster pace, so as to improve the adoption. It also aims to identify if the AI can facilitate design thinking sessions and act as a collaborator to help the participants make decisions based on data faster. The proposed concept has been tested by developing an AI powered whiteboard software using Open AI’s APIs and a custom ML model on user-profile data to manage it, which was then run by a group of users for their Design-Thinking session for testing and accessing its success in enhancing the design process. The AI-facilitated design-thinking process produced desirable outcomes in significantly less time and helped speed up the Design-Thinking process.