Your Hand Is the Prompt
Your Hand Is the Prompt — A 2h Embodied AI Prototyping Workshop
Most AI interfaces still ask us to sit still, type, and wait.
But what happens when the body becomes part of the prompt?
In this 2-hour online workshop, we will explore how gestures, webcam-based hand tracking, face tracking, and simple browser prototypes can help designers imagine AI interfaces beyond the chatbox.
This is a hands-on introduction to Embodied AI Interfaces for designers, creative technologists, artists, educators, and curious people who want to prototype more physical, spatial, and expressive ways of interacting with machines.
We will look at how the body can become:
a remote control
a symbolic language
a spatial controller
a face filter
an input for playful AI interaction
You do not need to be an expert coder. The goal is not to build a polished product, but to understand the interaction grammar behind embodied interfaces: input, processing, output, feedback, gesture, ambiguity, and design decisions.
By the end of the workshop, you will have a clearer framework for designing body-based AI interactions and a set of small browser-based experiments to continue exploring.
What we will cover
What “embodied AI” can mean in interaction design
How hand tracking and face tracking work conceptually
How to think about gestures as interface inputs
How to prototype with webcam, browser, JavaScript, and AI-assisted coding
How to design simple interaction grammars for experimental interfaces
Who this is for
UX/UI designers
Interaction designers
Creative technologists
Artists and educators
Designers curious about AI beyond chat interfaces
Beginners who want a practical entry point into embodied interaction
Format
2-hour online workshop
Live demos + conceptual framework + guided prototyping discussion
No advanced coding experience required
Recommended preparation
A laptop with a webcam
A modern browser such as Chrome
Curiosity about gesture, body, interface, and AI