Dr. Denise Geiskkovitch

Robots are becoming more common in places such as hospitals, museums, airports, workplaces, schools, and homes. Thus, it is important to consider how people will interact and communicate with robots. Robots pose unique challenges in comparison to the more familiar interfaces of PCs and hand-held devices: robots often have limited display space, move dynamically about an environment, and elicit responses more akin to humans than to other technologies. As such, interaction often includes a mixture of modalities such as gestures, speech, control interfaces, and even human-like facial expressions. In this course, students will learn about interaction design challenges specific to robots and emerging methods for understanding and approaching human-robot interaction design.