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
- Instructor: Illah Nourbakhsh, <illah@ri.cmu.edu>, 8x2007, Newell-Simon Hall 3115. Office hours by appointment and after class.
- Course administrator: Karen Widmaier, <krw@andrew.cmu.edu>.
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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