01/11:
Class 1: Lecture Introduction
01/16:
Class 2: Lecture UX Design Process
01/18:
Class 3: Lecture Design Dimensions of Social Robots
01/23:
Class 4: Lecture Participatory Design
01/25:
Class 5: Community Research
01/29:
Class 6: atelier class
02/01:
Class 7: Student Presentations - Hack Your Toy!
02/06:
Class 8: Guest Lecture
02/08:
Class 9: Student Presentations of Proposals
02/13:
Class 10: Guest lecture
02/15:
Class 11: atelier class
02/20:
Class 12: Guest Lecture
02/22:
Class 13: Lecture
03/05:
Class 14: Lecture Design Metaphor
03/07:
Class 15: Guest Lecture: Sophia
03/12:
Class 16: atelier class
03/14:
Class 17: atelier class
03/19:
Class 18: Lecture Bodystorming
03/21:
Class 19: Guest Lecture
03/26:
Class 20: Paper Critique Presentation
03/28:
Class 21: Guest Lecture
04/02:
Class 22: Lecture Design Evaluation
04/04:
Class 23: Guest Lecture
04/09:
Class 24: Lecture
04/11:
Class 25: Lecture Intermediate level Knowledge
04/16:
Class 26: atelier class
04/18:
Class 27: Student Presentations of Group Projects
04/23:
Class 28: student presentations of group projects
Individual Project - 30%
Task: Students will work individually to re-create an existing toy and use the components for a different design goal.
Evaluation: Students will be graded based on a set of design rubrics.
Group Project - 50%
Task: Students will engage in group projects aimed at implementing an interactive and creative Robot Design to gain hands-on practical experience.
Evaluation: Project teams will be graded based on consistent participation throughout the semester, deliverables, demonstrated mastery of literature and technical content. Graduate students are assigned a research paper related to the project.
Class Involvement - 20%
The class involvement is split into:
Quizzes
Reflections on Guest Lectures
Attentiveness and Interest
This course was designed and developed by Patricia Alves-Oliveira.
Robotics DepartmentThis Course is running in Winter 2024 and will be offered again in Spring 2025
Lectures
Tuesday & Thursday 12:00 - 1:30 PM G906 COOL
Office Hours
Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 PM 2252 FMCRB
Makerspace Hours
Thursday & Saturday 10:30 - 11:30 AM 1141 FMCRB
Course description: This advanced course covers fundamentals of Design for Human-Robot Interaction. Topics include frameworks for robot design; ideation strategies for robotics such as body-storming and speculation; participatory design with end-users and communities; creation of mock-ups and prototypes to test ideas; development of qualitative and quantitative key-performance indicators to measure the success of the robot; design ethics, etc. This course will prepare students to be full-stack interaction robot designers.
Learning objectives: After this course, students will be able to:
Structure: This course is structured as an upper-undergrad and graduate level hands-on course on design for human-robot interaction.
Individual Project Rubric:
Undergraduates
Aidan Deacon
Anish
Balaji
Carol Wang
Emerald Taylor
Emily
Wu
Isabella Garcia
Jose Galvan
Lilly
Richards
Margaret Douglas Kempe
Michael
Robinson
Shivam Patel
Skye Krzykwa
Graduates
Basavasagar Patil
Connor
Williams
Hongjiao Qiang
Miranda
Mittleman
Sharmane Powell
Sheena
Erete
Community Research
University of Maryland
Elin
Bjorling
Human-Centered
Design
University of Washington
Anastasia
Ostrowski
Design Justice
Purdue
University
Sophia
Brueckner
Speculative
Design
University of Michigan
Kim
Baraka
Embodied HRI
Vrije
Universiteit
Yuhan
Hu
Soft Robotics
Cornell
University
Kayla
Matheus
HRI for Health
Yale
University
Maria
Luce Lupetti
Generative AI
TU
Delft