Entry requirements

120 credits including 60 credits in IT-related fields of study, including human-computer interaction, or equivalent. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• understand principles and theories of human-robot interaction
• carry out user requirement analysis and design of human-robot interaction in concrete scenarios
• design and develop social skills for human-robot interaction
• use quantitative and qualitative approaches for evaluation and analysis of human-robot interaction data
• evaluate the impact that social robots may have on ethical values like privacy and autonomy that are important for users and society at large

Content

Theories and methods of human-robot interaction; Paradigms of human-robot interaction; Interaction techniques; Human robot interaction design; User requirements analysis and prototyping for social robots; Evaluation of human-robot interaction; Applications of human-robot interaction; Robots and ethics.

Instruction

Lectures and assignments.

Assessment

Assignments (2.5 credits); oral and written presentation of a project (5 credits).

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.