Teacher: Dr. Mary Ellen Foster, School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

Dates: April. 24 - May 15

Brief course description: When humans engage in face-to-face conversation, they use their voices, faces, and bodies together in a rich, multimodal, continuous, interactive process. For a robot to participate fully in this sort of natural, face-to-face conversation in the real world, it must also be able not only to understand the multimodal communicative signals of its human partners, but also to produce understandable, appropriate, and natural communicative signals in response. In this module, we will discuss the current state of the art in social robotics, and what the main challenges are in developing this sort of technology. We will also discuss the societal implications of developing this sort of technology: not the fictional, hype-based issues currently seen in the media, but the actual societal changes that are currently under increased discussion in the research community.

Evaluation

To finalize the Social Robotics section, you should prepare a 3-pages report (ONLY IN PDF FORMAT) on a paper chosen from the proceedings of:

HRI 2018 http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2018/proceedings/
ICSR 2017 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319700212
IEEE RO-MAN 2017 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8116593

(Please download the papers from the DIAG network, otherwise you may not be able to access them).

The report, along with the DOI or the URL of the selected paper, should should provide:

- Summary of problem addressed and solution;
- Discussion on your opinion of the positive and negative points of the paper.

Submit your Social Robotics report using the following link:

Social Robotics Assignment Submission

Report Deadline: Friday June 22 2018