Social Robots: Design, Research and Interaction, 5 cr

Tampere University

Description
Completion options

Teaching periods

Course code

HTI.460

Language of instruction

English

Academic years

2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027

Level of study

Advanced studies

Grading scale

General scale, 0-5

Persons responsible

Responsible teacher:

Aino Ahtinen, Students' contact person for course related questions

Responsible teacher:

Aparajita Chowdhury

Responsible organisation

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %

Coordinating organisation

Computing Sciences Studies 100 %

Basics of human-robot interaction, social robots and social robotics, diversity of robots, robots' modalities, human-centred design of social robots and their applications. Several visiting lecturers every year present their novel topics on HRI. Multi-disciplinary project in small teams, with a semi-public final presentation event. Co-design workshop. Literature review of related articles.

Learning outcomes

Compulsory prerequisites

Recommended prerequisites

Further information

Learning material

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Studies that include this course

Completion option 1

Lecture participation. Active participation in exercise sessions and teamwork, as well as homeworks. Small robotic programming task. Written report and presentation of the group assignment. Individual literature review related to the assignment topic (3-5 scientific articles). Experiencing demos and visits.

Participation in teaching

Project (English)

03.03.2025 – 30.05.2025