cse599k1 | human-robot interaction | spring 2014
ANNOUNCEMENTS
[JUN 04] Final presentations will be on June 11th, Wednesday 1:00-3:00pm at CSE 403.
[MAY 27] Project milestone #4 (user study analysis) is due on June 9th, Monday.
[MAY 05] Check out project milestone #3 and sign up for a demo time by May 16th.
[APR 23] Please complete project milestone #2 by May 2nd, Friday, 5pm.
[APR 07] Please complete project milestone #1 by April 11, Friday, 5pm.
[MAR 31] Course started. Please sign up to present a topic on the Calendar.
[MAR 17] Course schedule/location finalized; course announced.
Basic Information
Instructor: Maya Cakmak | CSE 542
Teaching assistants: N/A
Contact: mcakmak [at] cs.washington.edu
Class times: Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:50pm
Class location: EEB 031
Office hours: Mondays & Wednesdays, 2:50-3:30pm (following each class)
Office hours location: CSE 014 Human-centered robotics lab
Course Objectives
This special topics course aims to introduce students to research in human-robot interaction (HRI) and get experience in conducting HRI research. Students will get exposed to the diverse range of research topics in this area, learn to identify HRI problems in their own research, and carry out a collaborative project involving real human-robot interactions.
Expectations
This course will have two main components: (i) paper reading, presentation, discussion; and (ii) a 9-week project. We will spend one lecture a week on each component (Mondays on projects; Wednesdays on papers).
The reading topics will be specified in advance and one paper will be given for each topic. Students will sign up to present their preferred topic (first-come-first-serve) and will get to recommend a second, complementary paper on the same topic. The presenting student will give a ~30 minute presentation to explain the two papers and put forth 2-3 discussion questions. Other students will be expected to read the papers before the respective lectures and contribute to the discussions. Check out the Calendar page for a list of tentative topics.
The projects will address research questions related to the students' ongoing research and should leverage the students' existing skills and platforms. The only strict requirement on the project is that it involves some form of human-robot interaction. Projects can focus on a particular enabling technology (sensors, hardware, perception/learning/inference algorithms, etcetera) but we will ask that they are motivated by and contextualized in a human-robot interaction scenario. The projects can be individual or in groups. We will give support for several robot platforms. To help you stay on track we will grade your project based on milestones as specified below. Interested students will be given support to continue their projects beyond this course to submit a conference paper to HRI 2015 in Portland, OR and will be given travel support to attend the conference.
The grading scheme is as follows:
Paper presentation and leading the discussion (20%)
Participation in other discussions (10%)
Project assignments (group or individual) (70%)
Research questions (5%)
Technical implementation (10%)
User study design (5%)
User study analysis (15%)
Write-up (conference-style paper) (15%)
Public demo and presentation (10%)
Video (10%)
More details on project milestones can be found in the Milestones page.