Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction, Fall 2011


Dr. James Young
young@cs.umanitoba.ca
EITC-E2-406
office hours: M / W 9:30am-10:30am ROASS

Class Slides

09/12Introduction

Schedule, Outline and Readings

fundamentals and introduction
September 12th, introduction
  -Kiesler and Hinds, "Introduction to this special issue on human-robot interaction," HCI 19, 2004
 
Sept 14th, physicality
  -Klemmer et al, "How bodies matter," DIS 2006
  -Young, embodiment
 
Sept 19th, overview
  -Young, HRI overview
 
guest lecture, Dr. Daisuke Sakamoto
Sept 21st, -Liu et al., Robotshop: multi-layered sketching interface for robot housework assignment and management. CHI 2011
  -Sakamoto et al., Android as a telecommunication medium with a human-like presence HRI 2007
  -(optional) Sakamoto et al., Sketch and Run:A Stroke-based Interface for Home Robots CHI 2009
 
robot control and communication
Sept 26st, remote control
  -Drury et al., Awareness in Human-Robot Interaction, SMC 2003 (Bhavdeep)
  -Drury et al., LASSOing HRI: Analyzing Situation Awareness in Map-Centric and Video-Centric Interfaces, HRI 2007
  -Kadous et al., Effective User Interface Design for Rescue Robotics, HRI 2005
  -(optional) Richer and Drury, A Video Game Based Framework for analyzing Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2006
  -(optional) Lapides et al., Three Dimensional tangible user interface for controlling a robotic team, HRI 2008 (Andrew)
 
Sept 28th, collocated control
  -Yanco and Drury, Classifying Human-Robot Interaction: An Updated Taxonomy, SMC 2004
  -Guo and Sharlin. Exploring the use of tangible user interfaces for human-robot interaction, CHI 2008
  -Hoffman and Breazeal, Collaboration in Human-Robot Teams, AIAA 2004. (Christopher)
  -(optional)Wang and Lewis. Human Control for Cooperating Robot Teams, HRI 2007
 
evaluation methodologies
Oct 3rd, -Wikens et al., Chapter 2: "research methods," an introduction to human-factors engineering," 1998
  -(optional) Grounded Theory, Wikipedia (Robbie)
 
Oct 5th, -Steinfeld et al., Common Metrics for Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2006 (Bhavdeep)
  -Young et al., Evaluating human-robot interaction: Focusing on the holistic interaction experience SORO 3(1) (Ashish)
 
the sociology of human-robot interaction
Oct 10th,HOLIDAY!
 
Oct 12th, core sociology
  -Bijker, King of the Road, The Social Construction of the Safety Bicycle
  -Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, from The Whale and the reactor, 1986 (Srikanth)
  -Young et al., Toward acceptable domestic robots, SORO 1(1) (Navid)
  -(Optional) Sung et al., "Housewives or Technphiles?: understanding domestic robot owners
 
Oct 17th, domestic robots
  -Forlizzi and DiSalvo, Service Robots in the Domestic Environment HRI 2006 (Amandeep)
  -Sung et al., my Roomba is Rambo, UBICOMP 2007 (Jashan)
 
Oct 19th, -Wada and Shibata, Living With Seal Robots Its Sociopsychological and Physiological Influences on the Elderly at a Care House, IEEE Trans Robo 23(5) 2007 (Ashish)
  -Sabelli et al., A Conversational Robot in an Elderly Care Center: an Ethnographic Study HRI 2011 (Megha)
 
Oct 24th, robots "in the wild"
  -Garreau, Bots on the ground Washington Post, 2008 (Megha)
  -Hayashi et. al., Humanoid Robots as a Passive-Social Medium HRI 2007 (Amandeep)
  -Weiss et al., Robots asking for directions: the willingness of passers-by to support robots HRI 2010
  -(optional) -Nabe et al., Analysis of Human Behavior to a Communication Robot in an Open Field HRI 2007
  -(optional) -Kanda et al., An Affective Guide Robot in a Shopping Mall, HRI 2009
 
robots as social actors
Oct 26th, robots and affect
  -R Picard, Affective Computers, Ch 2 I Affective Computing, 1999 (Andrew)
  -D. Norman Emotional Design, Ch. 6 & 7, 2004 (Srikanth)
 
Oct 31st, overview
  -Fong et al., A survey of socially interactive robots," RAS 2003
  -(Optional) Breazeal, Affective Interaction Between Humans and Robots (Zahid)
 
Nov 2nd, interpersonal variation
  -Wang et al., When in rome: the role of culture & context in adherence to robot recommendations HRI 2010 (Navid)
  -Fischer, Interpersonal variation in understanding robots as social actors, HRI 2010
 
Nov 7th, anthropomorphism
  -Short et al., No Fair!! An interaction with a cheating robot, HRI 2010 (Christopher)
  -Bartneck et al., To Kill a Mockingbird Robot, 2007 (Aleksander)
  -(Optional) Gockley et al., Interactions with a moody robot HRI 2006
 
Nov 9th, android science
  -Ishiguro, Android Science, Cogsci 2005 (Matthew)
  -Minato et al., Development of an Android Robot for Studying Human-Robot Interaction, IEA/AIE 2004
  -Ogawa et al., Exploring the Natural Reaction of Young and Aged Person with Telenoid in a Real World Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 15(5) 2011
  -(optional) MacDorman, Assessing Human Likeness by Eye Contact in an Android Testbed, CogSci 2005
  -(optional) Shimada et al., Effects of Observing Eye Contact between a Robot and Another Person SORO 2011(3)
  -(optional) Sidner et al., The effect of head-nod recognition in human-robot interaction HRI 2006 (Zahid)
 
Nov 14th, the uncanny valley
  -Mori, Bukimi no Tani: The Uncanny Valley, Energy 7(4) 1970
  -Hanson et al., upending the uncanny valley, AAAI 2005 (Akash)
 
Nov 16th, -MacDorman, Androids as an Experimental Apparatus: Why is There an Uncanny Valley and Can We Exploit it?, COGSCI-2005 workshop (Akash)
  -Ho et al., Human Emotion and the Uncanny Valley, HRI 2008 (Jashan)
 
Nov 21st, the power of movement
  -J. Lasseter, Principles of Traditional Animation applied to 3D Computer Animation, in Computer Graphics, 1987. (Aleksander)
  -Michalowski et al., A dancing robot for rhythmic social interaction, HRI 2007 (Matthew)
  -(Optional) -Saerbeck and Bartneck, Perception of affect elicited by robot motion, HRI 2010
  -(Optional) - Harris and Sharlin, "Exploring the Affect of Abstract Motion in Social Human-Robot Interaction
 
Nov 23rd, psychology and robots
  -Csibra, Teleological and referential understanding of action in infancy, Phil Trans R Soc Lond (Robbie)
  -Nagai and Rohlfing Computational Analysis of Motionese Toward Scaffolding Robot Action Learning, IEEE Trans on Autonomous Mental Development, 2009
  -Trafton, Enabling Effective HRI using perspective taking in robots, SMC 2005
  -(Optional) -D. Dennett, True Believers," in Mind Design II, 1981
  -(Optional) -Baldwin and Baird Discerning Intentions in Dynamic Human Action TICS 2001
 
Nov 28th, robot ethics
  Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly
  - short video - robovie, go into the closet
  -(Optional) Groom et al., Critic, compatriot, or chump?: responses to robot blame attribution, HRI 2010

Grading / overview

  • Primary components
    • Class participation (10%)
      • show up and talk!
      • 2 freebe misses
    • Presentations (10%)
      • 3 each!
      • send me an email NOW with your top 5 in order of preference
      • critical analysis
    • Reading Summaries (10%)
      • 10 throughout the term
      • YOU choose which reading summaries you want to do
      • max one per class, due at BEGINNING of class the paper is presented
    • final paper (40%)
      • 5(6) deadlines!!!!!!!!!!!!
      • Sep 17th -- Proposal due (0%)
      • Oct 12th -- Draft 1 (5 pages, 2%)
      • Oct 26th -- Draft 2 (5 pages, 3%)
      • Nov 16th -- midterm draft (5 pages, 10%)
      • Nov 30th -- Draft 4 (8 pages, 5%)
      • Dec 14th -- final (8 pages, 20%)
    • group project (30%)
      • proposal (0%), done!
      • final presentation & paper submission: to be scheduled

Groups!

  • group 1
    • Jashan, Megha, Akash
  • group 2
    • Bhavdeep, Srikanth, Aman
  • group 3
    • Robbie, Matthew, Andrew, Chris
  • group 4
    • Navid, Zahid, Aleksander
  • individual
    • Ashish

Term papers!!!

  • Matthew - Anthropomorphism: Not Just for Cats Anymore
  • Chris - Building the Future: How Speculative Fiction Drives Robotics Research
  • Aleksander - iRobot Roomba: a survey
  • Aman - The Reality of Domestic Robots
  • Andrew - State-of-the-Art in Situational Awareness
  • Jashan - Ethics of Robots
  • Megha - Significance of Robot's Intelligence on Humans
  • Srikanth - Emotional Robots: What Makes them Work Better?
  • Zahid - Robot Learning through Human Interaction
  • Navid - Robot Actions Based on Users' Personality Factors
  • Akash - Coexistence of Robots with Humans- A Journey from Laboratories to our Surroundings
  • Ashish - Animal-Inspired Human-Robot Interaction