Working with AI: Developing Critical Reflection on Intercultural Human-AI Interaction and AI-Mediated Research
Working with AI: Developing Critical Reflection on Intercultural Human-AI Interaction and AI-Mediated Research
Lead: Xianzhi Chen, Applied Linguistics
Co-lead: Stella Shi, Applied Linguistics
2025/2026
Summary
The growing use of generative AI is reshaping how students conduct research, collaborate, and communicate across linguistic and cultural boundaries. While students often use AI critically, structured support for reflecting on AI-mediated communication and collaborative research remains limited. This project designs and pilots a student-co-created workshop that integrates avatar creation, AI mediated co-design research project, peer interpretation, and guided reflection. Students will explore how AI shapes self-representation, intercultural interaction, and group dynamics, while developing critical, strategic and reflective approaches to working with AI. The project aims to contribute a pedagogically grounded human-AI co-intelligence model for supporting student critical AI literacy that connects individual meaning-making and AI-mediated collaborative academic practice.