16899D: Principles of Human-Robot Interaction
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Illah R. Nourbakhsh


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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 applications.

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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, and group final projects.

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


    Announcements

    Class location is NSH 3002 Times and days are Mondays and Wednesdays 1.30PM - 2.50PM.

    Reading Questions:
    Questions on Burke
    Questions on Barnlund
    Questions on Dourish
    Questions on Forlizzi (answer #2 only)
    Questions on DiSalvo
    Questions on Kahn et al.
    Questions on Steinfeld
    Questions on Sheridan
    Questions comparing PER and RASC
    Questions on Keepon/Michalowski
    Questions on Turkle
    Questions on Brenda Laurel text


    Readings that can be downloaded:
    Burke Intro
    Burke Chapter selection
    Barnlund
    Dourish pp. 1-23
    Dourish pp. 40-53
    Dourish pp. 99-126
    Fong
    Nass, Robot Teammates
    Forlizzi et. al, Elderly
    Disalvo Chapter 2 of thesis
    Design Patterns for HRI (Kahn et al.)
    Robotic Autonomy Summer Course
    Steinfeld
    Ethnography as Invisible Work
    Keepon/Michalowski
    Sheridan Ch 1
    Sheridan Ch 3
    Sheridan Ch 9
    Mobot summary paper (Nourbakhsh et al.)
    Roboceptionist (Gockley, Simmons, et al.)
    Grace (Simmons et al.)
    Personal Exploration Rover
    Authenticity in the age of digital companions / Sherry Turkle
    Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theatre section 1
    Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theatre section 2

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    Illah R. Nourbakhsh ( illah@cs.cmu.edu)