Projects

You will be required to complete a project for the course. You can do this solo or in a group of 2-3 people.

If it involves human participants, then you are REQUIRED by MIT to obtain PRIOR approval of COUHES before you do any work with the human participants.

Fri Feb 15: Form teams and submit short descriptions of 2 project proposal ideas
Wed Feb 27: Present project proposal to class; Project proposal due: planned design/timetable/who will do what, background references, COUHES status
Thurs Mar 14: Last day to get Linda Peterson/MAS/Your department head's sign off if you are doing COUHES through the Media Lab
Thurs Mar 21: Last day COUHES can accept your completed (and signed by both advisor and department) application for human subjects experiment

*** REMINDER: Attendance on the two final project presentation days is REQUIRED ***

What is COUHES?

All projects that involve research on human participants must have the prior approval of the MIT Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES). If you can piggyback on a current COUHES protocol, that is fastest/easiest. If not, you need to MOVE FAST to submit a COUHES application before the Spring COUHES meeting dates:

due Thurs Feb 14 to department (for arrival by Feb 21 to COUHES, for their meeting/decision Mar 14)
due Thurs Mar 14 to department (for arrival by Mar 21 to COUHES for their meeting/decision Apr 11)

If you are in the Media Lab, then Linda Peterson asks to sign off before COUHES sees it.

IMPORTANT, before your COUHES application can be approved you must pass your "CITI certification"

If you've never done a COUHES application, you should start this more than two weeks before the deadline.

Please plan to meet w/Picard, Breazeal, or Park (or all three!) to brainstorm project ideas as soon as possible. We will have several office hours before COUHES forms and project plans are due, and you can always book time through their assistants as well. Picard will also plan to be available the hour after class. Let's work together to help you have a positive experience and a successful project!

Report abuse