Applied Social Robotics

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During the course, you will work in a multidisciplinary research team and learn how people interact with robots, how to design social robots, how to set up a human-robot experiment. You and your teammates come from various fields such as psychology, social work, education, healthcare, engineering, media, IT, communication, and business. All of you will bring specific knowledge from your field and together you will find creative ways to utilise these skills. Combining your strengths will give you the opportunity to come up with and design new solutions in the field of social robots.

In this course, both theoretical background and hands-on experience on Social Robotics will be provided. Knowledge about essential theories, concepts, principles, and tooling will be addressed. This knowledge enables the students to design and experiment with applying Social Robotics in a responsible way.

After the course, the student is able to:
- explain and select various design methods applicable to social robots in several domains;
- apply various design methods applicable to social robots in several domains, and thereby can design a social robot for a specific scenario;
- present a social robot scenario to an academic/ professional audience;
- explain the basic theories, concepts, and principles related to the domain of human-robot interaction;
- critically describe how the design (e.g. embodiment and anthropomorphism) of a social robot influences how humans interact with robots;
- build/configure a social robot for a specific purpose within a domain, such as education, healthcare, or hospitality;
- set up an experiment to assess the effect of a social robot;
- analyze and explain experimental data results;
- present the project using a scientific paper.

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