Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction: A Multi-Perspective Introductory Course

In this paper I describe the design of an introductory course in These course goals are critically conditioned on the expected background Human-Robot Interaction. This project-driven course is designed to of the enrolled students. The course is offered at a small introduce undergraduate and graduate engineering students, especially engineering-only university with a strong focus on Robotics related those enrolled in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, fields (50% of all undergraduate students are enrolled in Mechanical and Robotics degree programs, to key theories and methods used Engineering or Computer Science degree programs, and degree programs in the field of Human-Robot Interaction that they would otherwise offered in Robotics at both the undergraduate and graduate be unlikely to see in those degree programs. To achieve this aim, level), but with no degree programs offered in social sciences or humanities the course takes students all the way from stakeholder analysis (e.g., Psychology) and few, if any, elective courses available to empirical evaluation, covering and integrating key Qualitative, in those fields. The university size and focus means that the course Design, Computational, and Quantitative methods along the way. I is offered at a mixed undergraduate/graduate level, and is primarily detail the goals, audience, and format of the course, and provide a offered to students from Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, detailed walkthrough of the course syllabus.