Human-Robot Interaction
Human-robot interaction (HRI) is an exiting and relatively young area of research in computer science. In loose terms, HRI was born when the first automaton was ever created since they were meant to work with people and, often enough, for people. As a formal area of scholarly investigation, it was born out of the knowledge and the methods of human-computer interaction and grew up around the particular needs imposed by the concept of robot.
This course is a computer science elective that is taught in seminar style. Our students learn to explore the existing body of knowledge in the area first to develop an understanding of the different fields of scholarly exploration that it offers. After this exploration in breadth, students elect a field to focus on and to study in depth. Working collaboratively with their teams, students will formulate a research question in some field of HRI and design and conduct an experiment to advance toward the answer to that question.