Syllabus

Human-Robot Interaction

Course Syllabus

This course will cover a variety of topics related to social intelligence. We will spend 1-2 weeks on each topic, and readings/lectures will cover (1) what’s known about how this ability arises in human intelligence, and (2) state-of-the-art approaches to building computational systems with this type of social ability. Readings will be linked here, and you are expected to turn in a Summary & Critique by noon the day of lecture. Assignments and deadlines listed here are approximate and will be specified in detail on the Assignments page.

Download: syllabus.pdf.

Tues, Jan. 8

First class, introduction

Thurs, Jan. 10

R. Brooks, “It’s 2001 Already”, Flesh and Machines, Ch. 4, 2003.

T. Fong et al., “A survey of socially interactive robots”, RAS 2003.

Week 1: Introduction & Social Robots Overview

Tues, Jan. 15

D. Norman “Emotional Design”, Ch. 6 & 7, 2004.

S. Klemmer et al., “How bodies matter”, DIS 2006.

Thurs, Jan. 17

D. Dennett, “True Believers," in Mind Design II, (Originally 1981).

J. Lasseter, “Principles of Traditional Animation applied to 3D Computer Animation”, in Computer Graphics, 1987.

Week 2: Anthropomorphism & Design

Week 3 & 4: Intentions, Intentionality, and Perceiving other Minds

Week 5-7: Social Learning

Week 8-10: Collaboration and Teamwork

Week 13 & 14: Emotional Intelligence

Week 11

Week 12: Measuring HRI

Week 15:

Finals week

Tues, Jan. 22

Gergely Csibra, “Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy”, Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2003.

D. Baldwin and J. Baird, “Discerning Intentions in Dynamic Human Action” TICS 2001.

optional reading: Woodward, et al., “How infants make sense of intentional action”, Ch7 in Intentions and Intentionality, Ed. Malle and Moses, 2001.

Thurs, Jan. 24

M. Kobliarov et al., “People tracking and following with mobile robots”, ICRA 2006.

O.C. Jenkins et al., “Tracking Human Motion and Actions for Interactive Robots” HRI 2007.

Tues, Jan. 29

S. Baron Cohen “Precursers to a Theory of Mind: Understanding Attention in Others” in Natural Theories of Mind (Ed. A. Whiten) 1993.

G. Trafton, “Enabling Effective HRI using perspective taking in robots”, T-SMC 2005.

Thurs, Jan. 31

Gallese and Goldman, “Mirror Neurons and the Simulation Theory of Mind-reading”, TICS 1998.

J. Gray et al., “Action parsing and goal inference using self as simulator”, RO-MAN 2005.

Tues, Feb 5

A. Meltzoff and J. Decety, “What imitation tells us about social cognition”, Philos Trans R Soc Lon. 2003.

A. Meltzoff, “Like-me: a foundation for social cognition” Developmental Science 10:1, 2007.

Thurs, Feb 7

M. F. Mascolo, “Change processes in development: The concept of coactive scaffolding”, New Ideas in Psychology, 2005.

Tues, Feb 12

Project proposal presentations, no readings. 8 mins for single person groups, 12 mins for multi-person groups. The following schedule will be strictly enforced, so that we have a chance to hear from everyone. Plan your presentation accordingly.

3:10 Abhishek Saxena “Learning by Demonstration”

3:20 Travis Deyle “RFID People Following”

3:30 Manvesh, Cyril, Brian “Tele-emotion robots”

3:44 Niyant, Jinhan, Richard, John “Joint-Attention”

3:58 Jeremy, Colin, Peng “Engagement and SG-ML”

4:12 Maya, Chandan “Social Learning”

Thurs, Feb 14

A. Billard et al. “Robot Programming by Demonstration” Handbook of Robotics, Ch 59, 2007.

Tues, Feb 19

M. Nicolescu and M. Mataric, “Natural Methods for Robot Task Learning”, AAMAS 2003.

F. Kaplan et al., “Robot Clicker Training”, RAS 2001.

Thurs, Feb 21

A. Thomaz and C. Breazeal, “Teachable Robots: Understanding human teaching behavior to build more effective robot learners”, AIJ, 2008.

C. Breazeal and A. Thomaz, “Learning from Human Teachers with Socially Guided Exploration”, ICRA 2008.

Wed, April 30: Final exam period, 11:30-2:20.

Find details on project presentations here.

Tues, Feb 26

Bratman, “Shared Cooperative Activity,” Philosophical Review,1992.

Levesque et al. “On Acting Together,” AAAI 1990.

Thurs, Feb 28

Bangerter & Clark, “Navigating Joint Projects with Dialog”, Cognitive Science 27 (2003).

Sebanz et al. “Joint Action: Bodies and minds moving together,” Trends in Cognitive Science, 2006.

Tues, Mar 4

T. Fong et al., “A preliminary study of Peer-to-Peer HRI,” SMC 2006.

Sakita et al., “Flexible cooperation between human and robot by interpreting human intention from gaze information,” IROS 2004.

Argall et al., “The First Segway Soccer Experience,” HRI 2006.

Thurs, Mar 6

G. Hoffman & C. Breazeal, “Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams,” AIAA 2004.

G. Hoffman & C. Breazeal, “Cost-Based Anticipatory Action Selection for Human-Robot Fluency,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2007.

Tues, Mar 11

Jones & Hinds, “Extreme work teams,” CSCW 2002.

R. Murphy, “HRI and Rescue Robots” 2004.

*****This will be a virtual class: we will have a group discussion about these papers over IRC******

Thurs, Mar 13

no class today

Tues, Mar 25

Mid-Term Project Review: no readings. There will be 8 mins for single person groups, 12 minutes for multi-person groups, with a 2 min buffer for questions and setup. Schedule is the following:

3:10 Maya, Chandan “Social Learning”

3:24 Colin, Peng “Engagement and SG-ML”

3:38 Niyant, Jinhan, Richard, John “Joint-Attention”

3:52 Manvesh, Cyril, Brian “Tele-emotion robots”

4:06 Travis Deyle “RFID People Following”

4:16 Abhishek Saxena “Learning by Demonstration”