Introduction
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This course focuses on the emerging field of human-robot interaction, bringing
together research and application of methodology from robotics, human factors, human-computer
interaction, interaction design, cognitive psychology, education and other fields to enable robots
to have more natural and more rewarding interactions with humans throughout their spheres of
functioning. This course is a combination of state-of-art reading and discussions, focused
team exercises and problem-solving sessions in human-robot interaction, and a special team
project resulting in the implementation of a human-robot interaction system
for specific application to the Elderly and Disabled populations based on
the Quality of Life Technologies NSF Center of Excellent that we share
ownership over here at Carnegie Mellon.
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Prerequisites:
This is a graduate course intended for those considering serious research in human-robot
interaction, with a special emphasis on robotic systems and technologies appropriate for
such interaction systems. The course project will involve significant programming, and thus
a solid mastery of computer programming languages is a prerequisite for this course as well
as a solid understanding of research methodologies.
Text:
There is no text for this course, although a number of textbook sections and many articles
will be assigned and read as part of this course.
Method of Evaluation:
This course will be evaluated based on reading evaluations, course participation, group
problem-solving challenges, group hri quality of life final projects, and a final examination.
Topics to be Covered:
Due to the fact that this is a new course, this is only a partial list of topics:
Social Robotics
Multi-modal human-robot communication
Human-robot interaction architectures
Sensors and perception for hri
Museum robotics
Educational robotics
Urban Search and Rescue: an hri focus example
Quality of Life Technologies: an hri focus example
Contact info
- Instructor: Illah Nourbakhsh, <illah@ri.cmu.edu>, 8x2007, Newell-Simon Hall 3115. Office hours by appointment and after class.
- Course administrator: Kristen Schrauder, <kristens@cs.cmu.edu>, Newell-Simon Hall 3128.
Announcements
Class location is NSH 3002 Times and
days are Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am - 10.20am
Reading Questions:
Questions on Burke
Questions on Barnlund
Questions on Dourish
Questions on Kiesler
Questions on Clark
Questions on Sheridan
Questions on Bruemmer and Ricks
Questions on DiSalvo
Questions on Mobot and USaR papers
Questions on Nass (Fulk)
Questions on Trafton/Schultz
Questions on Steinfeld
Questions on Forlizzi
Questions on Bruce proposal
Questions on Piaget (Wadsworth reader)
Questions on PER and RASC (Nourbakhsh et al.)
Questions on Arras, Gershenfeld, Sheridan
Questions on Brenda Laurel text
Readings that can be downloaded:
Burke Intro
Burke Chapter selection
Barnlund
Kiesler
Clark
Sheridan Ch 1
Sheridan Ch 3
Sheridan Ch 9
Disalvo Chapter 2 of thesis
Zip of Selected RO-MAN 2006 papers
Ricks
Bruemmer
USaR paper (Nourbakhsh et al.)
Mobot summary paper (Nourbakhsh et al.)
Trafton/Schultz Perspective-Taking paper
Steinfeld
Ethnography as Invisible Work
G. Johnston
Forlizzi et al.
Fong & Nourbakhsh, Interaction Challenges
Bruce proposal
Robotic Autonomy Summer Course
Personal Exploration Rover
Arras, Do we want to share our bodies with robots?
Brenda Laurel, Computers as
Theatre section 1
Brenda Laurel, Computers as
Theatre section 2
Old lecture slides from Illah:
Wicked Problems and Evolution of
Interaction Design
Week 4: Case study of Mobot
Week 4: Case study of USaR
Week 4: Peer-to-peer human-robot interaction and NASA
Week 12: Society, business, ethics discussion session
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