TIE-12206 Post-graduate Seminar on Pervasive Computing, 1-8 cr

Implementation TIE-12206 2017-08

Description

User Experience in Robotics.

After passing this course, the student can identify the important aspects of user experience in human-robot interaction and apply this knowledge in robotics design. The student is also familiar with the current research in robotics and can write a scientific report of their own design work.

Topics covered on the lectures include basics of human-robot interaction, collaborative robotics, social and service robots, persuasive robots, cross-cultural aspects of robotics, and user experience of programming and controlling robots. The exercise sessions focus on hands-on user experience and interaction design activities as a part of a group assignment, which leads the student through a process of robotics concept design and evaluation.

A student must have taken a course on the basics of user experience, such as "TIE-04100 Käyttäjäkokemuksen perusteet" or equivalent course in English prior to this course. The course "TIE-40106 Psychology of Pervasive Computing" is highly recommended.

Lessons

Assessment scale

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Requirements

Pre-tasks and active participation in exercise sessions. Seminar presentations in the last exercise session. Written report on the group assignment. Literature review related to the assignment topic (2-3 scientific articles).

Grading is based on exercise sessions' pre-tasks and participation (about 1/5 of the grade), group assignment report (~2/5 of the grade), group presentation in the last exercise session (~1/10 of the grade), and literature review (~1/5 of the grade). Lecture attendance is not mandatory but highly recommended. Participation in all exercise sessions is not mandatory but very highly recommended for the successful completion of group assignment.

Bonus points are given for lecture attendance and extra tasks, such as volunteering at European Robotics Forum (sign up at https://bit.ly/ERF2018staff by the end of January) or participation in small studies (more information later).

Additional information of course implementation

NOTE: Grading scale is numeric (0-5) and the course gives 3 credits. The information below ("grading scale is pass/fail") is wrong because of technical limitations (all TIE-12206 implementations need to have the same grading scale defined) and it will be updated later to numeric scale.

Study material