Course Schedule

The following table contains the course meeting schedule with links to the readings. By 8am the day of class, make your 1 minimum required analytical comment and if we are having a guest speaker make your 1 minimum required question on the reading using hypothes.is (making your annotations in the group “CMSC33281 Fall 2020”). If you are the discussion lead for an upcoming class, you must submit your 5 PDF slides to the Discussion Lead Slides Google Drive folder by 9am on the day BEFORE you lead the discussion (24 hours in advance). More details on making the analytical comments and leading discussions can be found on the course info page. Deadlines for the course project can be found on the project page.

The links I've provided for the readings will direct you to the official online proceedings or journal sites. If you're not able to view the entire paper or cannot download the PDF, I'd recommend searching for the paper on Google Scholar, where you can find an available PDF.


Date Meeting Type Meeting Lead Topic Reading(s)
Wed, Sep 30 Lecture Prof Sebo Introduction to HRI & the course
Fri, Oct 2 Discussion Prof Sebo Introduction to HRI & Embodiment Bainbridge et al. (2011)
Mon, Oct 5 Discussion Y.T. & V.Z. Nonverbal Behavior: Gaze Skantze et al. (2015)
Optional: Admoni and Scassellati (2017)
Wed, Oct 7 Discussion A.M. & B.D. Nonverbal Behavior: Gestures Sauppe and Mutlu (2014)
Fri, Oct 9 Discussion M.D. & S.S. Nonverbal Behavior: Navigation Mavrogiannis et al. (2019)
Mon, Oct 12 Guest Presentation Verbal Behavior: Emotion
Guest Speaker: Hannah Pelikan
Pelikan et al. (2020)
Optional: Jung (2017)
Wed, Oct 14 Discussion K.N. & E.P. Verbal Behavior: Natural Language Generation Knepper et al. (2015)
Fri, Oct 16 Discussion S.W. & B.D. Verbal Behavior: Timing and Humor Vilk and Fitter (2020)
Mon, Oct 19 Discussion Y.T. & V.Z. Social Dynamics: Conformity Vollmer et al. (2018)
Wed, Oct 21 Guest Presentation Social Dynamics: Trust
Guest Speaker: Manisha Natarajan
Natarajan and Gombolay (2020)
Optional: Tolmeijer et al. (2020)
Fri, Oct 23 Guest Presentation Social Dynamics: Trust
Guest Speaker: De'Aria Bryant
Bryant et al. (2020)
Optional: DeSteno et al. (2012)
Mon, Oct 26 Guest Presentation Norms/Ethics: Social Norms
Guest Speaker: Emmanuel Senft
Senft et al. (2020)
Optional: Malle et al. (2019)
Wed, Oct 28 Discussion M.D. & B.G. Norms/Ethics: Robot Abuse Tan et al. (2018)
Optional: Brscic et al. (2015)
Fri, Oct 30 Discussion S.W. & E.P. Norms/Ethics: Ethics de Graaf (2016)
Mon, Nov 2 Guest Presentation Collaboration & Learning: Planning for Human Non-Optimality
Guest Speakers: Minae Kwon and Erdem Biyik
Kwon et al. (2020)
Wed, Nov 4 Discussion A.M. & S.S. Collaboration & Learning: Handovers using Human Data Huang et al. (2015)
Optional: Chernova and Thomaz (2014)
Fri, Nov 6 Discussion K.N. & E.P. Collaboration & Learning: Planning for Trust Chen et al. (2018)
Mon, Nov 9 Discussion Y.T. & B.G. Group Interactions: Robot Interactions with Groups Booth et al. (2017)
Optional: Sebo et al. (2020)
Wed, Nov 11 Discussion Prof Sebo Group Interactions: Social 'Ripple Effects' Sebo et al. (2018)
Fri, Nov 13 Discussion M.D. & B.G. Group Interactions: Ingroup/Outgroup Effects Fraune et al. (2019)
Mon, Nov 16 Discussion S.W. & B.D. Applications: Education Ramachandran et al. (2016)
Optional: Belpaeme et al. (2018)
Wed, Nov 18 Discussion A.M. & S.S. Applications: Public Spaces Mizumaru et al. (2019)
Fri, Nov 20 Guest Presentation Applications: Elder Care
Guest Speaker: Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval
Cruz-Sandoval et al. (2020)
Optional: Sharkey and Sharkey (2012)
Mon, Nov 30 Discussion K.N. & V.Z. Future Challenges in HRI: Beyond the Novelty Effect Michaelis and Mutlu (2018)
Wed, Dec 2 Presentation Final Project Presentations
Fri, Dec 4 Presentation Final Project Presentations


Reading References

The following table includes the links to the course readings as well as their full bibliographic references.

Short Reference Bibliographic Reference
Admoni and Scassellati (2017) Admoni, H., & Scassellati, B. (2017). Social eye gaze in human-robot interaction: a review. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 6(1), 25-63.
Bainbridge et al. (2011) Bainbridge, W. A., Hart, J. W., Kim, E. S., & Scassellati, B. (2011). The benefits of interactions with physically present robots over video-displayed agents. International Journal of Social Robotics, 3(1), 41-52.
Baxter et al. (2016) Baxter, P., Kennedy, J., Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., & Belpaeme, T. (2016, March). From characterising three years of HRI to methodology and reporting recommendations. In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 391-398). IEEE.
Belpaeme et al. (2018) Belpaeme, T., Kennedy, J., Ramachandran, A., Scassellati, B., & Tanaka, F. (2018). Social robots for education: A review. Science robotics, 3(21).
Booth et al. (2017) Booth, S., Tompkin, J., Pfister, H., Waldo, J., Gajos, K., & Nagpal, R. (2017, March). Piggybacking robots: Human-robot overtrust in university dormitory security. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 426-434).
Brscic et al. (2015) Brščić, D., Kidokoro, H., Suehiro, Y., & Kanda, T. (2015, March). Escaping from children's abuse of social robots. In Proceedings of the tenth annual acm/ieee international conference on human-robot interaction (pp. 59-66).
Bryant et al. (2020) Bryant, D. A., Borenstein, J., & Howard, A. (2020, March). Why Should We Gender? The Effect of Robot Gendering and Occupational Stereotypes on Human Trust and Perceived Competency. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 13-21).
Chen et al. (2018) Chen, M., Nikolaidis, S., Soh, H., Hsu, D., & Srinivasa, S. (2018, February). Planning with trust for human-robot collaboration. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 307-315).
Chernova and Thomaz (2014) Chernova, S., & Thomaz, A. L. (2014). Robot learning from human teachers. Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, 8(3), 1-121.
Cruz-Sandoval et al. (2020) Cruz-Sandoval, D., Morales-Tellez, A., Sandoval, E. B., & Favela, J. (2020, March). A Social Robot as Therapy Facilitator in Interventions to Deal with Dementia-related Behavioral Symptoms. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 161-169).
de Graaf (2016) de Graaf, M. M. (2016). An ethical evaluation of human–robot relationships. International journal of social robotics, 8(4), 589-598.
DeSteno et al. (2012) DeSteno, D., Breazeal, C., Frank, R. H., Pizarro, D., Baumann, J., Dickens, L., & Lee, J. J. (2012). Detecting the trustworthiness of novel partners in economic exchange. Psychological science, 23(12), 1549-1556.
Fraune et al. (2019) Fraune, M. R., Sherrin, S., Šabanović, S., & Smith, E. R. (2019, March). Is human-robot interaction more competitive between groups than between individuals?. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 104-113). IEEE.
Huang et al. (2015) Huang, C. M., Cakmak, M., & Mutlu, B. (2015, July). Adaptive Coordination Strategies for Human-Robot Handovers. In Robotics: science and systems (Vol. 11).
Irfan et al. (2018) Irfan, B., Kennedy, J., Lemaignan, S., Papadopoulos, F., Senft, E., & Belpaeme, T. (2018, March). Social psychology and human-robot interaction: An uneasy marriage. In Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 13-20).
Jung (2017) Jung, M. F. (2017, March). Affective grounding in human-robot interaction. In 2017 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 263-273). IEEE.
Knepper et al. (2015) Knepper, R. A., Tellex, S., Li, A., Roy, N., & Rus, D. (2015). Recovering from failure by asking for help. Autonomous Robots, 39(3), 347-362.
Kwon et al. (2020) Kwon, M., Biyik, E., Talati, A., Bhasin, K., Losey, D. P., & Sadigh, D. (2020, March). When Humans Aren't Optimal: Robots that Collaborate with Risk-Aware Humans. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 43-52).
Malle et al. (2019) Malle, B. F., Bello, P., & Scheutz, M. (2019, January). Requirements for an artificial agent with norm competence. In Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 21-27).
Mavrogiannis et al. (2019) Mavrogiannis, C., Hutchinson, A. M., Macdonald, J., Alves-Oliveira, P., & Knepper, R. A. (2019, March). Effects of distinct robot navigation strategies on human behavior in a crowded environment. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 421-430). IEEE.
Michaelis and Mutlu (2018) Michaelis, J. E., & Mutlu, B. (2018). Reading socially: Transforming the in-home reading experience with a learning-companion robot. Science Robotics, 3(21).
Mizumaru et al. (2019) Mizumaru, K., Satake, S., Kanda, T., & Ono, T. (2019, March). Stop doing it! approaching strategy for a robot to admonish pedestrians. In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 449-457). IEEE.
Natarajan and Gombolay (2020) Natarajan, M., & Gombolay, M. (2020, March). Effects of Anthropomorphism and Accountability on Trust in Human Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 33-42).
Pelikan et al. (2020) Pelikan, H. R., Broth, M., & Keevallik, L. (2020, March). " Are You Sad, Cozmo?" How Humans Make Sense of a Home Robot's Emotion Displays. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 461-470).
Ramachandran (2016) Ramachandran, A., Litoiu, A., & Scassellati, B. (2016, March). Shaping productive help-seeking behavior during robot-child tutoring interactions. In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 247-254). IEEE.
Reuben et al. (2017) Rueben, M., Smart, W. D., Grimm, C. M., & Cakmak, M. (2017, March). Privacy-sensitive robotics. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 425-426).
Sauppe and Mutlu (2014) Sauppé, A., & Mutlu, B. (2014, March). Robot deictics: How gesture and context shape referential communication. In 2014 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 342-349). IEEE.
Sebo et al. (2018) Strohkorb Sebo, S., Traeger, M., Jung, M., & Scassellati, B. (2018, February). The ripple effects of vulnerability: The effects of a robot's vulnerable behavior on trust in human-robot teams. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 178-186).
Sebo et al. (2020) Sebo, S., Stoll, B., Scassellati, B., & Jung, M. F. (2020). Robots in Groups and Teams: A Literature Review. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW2), 1-36.
Senft et al. (2020) Senft, E., Satake, S., & Kanda, T. (2020, March). Would You Mind Me if I Pass by You? Socially-Appropriate Behaviour for an Omni-based Social Robot in Narrow Environment. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 539-547).
Sharkey and Sharkey (2012) Sharkey, A., & Sharkey, N. (2012). Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly. Ethics and information technology, 14(1), 27-40.
Skantze et al. (2015) Skantze, G., Johansson, M., & Beskow, J. (2015, November). Exploring turn-taking cues in multi-party human-robot discussions about objects. In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 67-74).
Tan et al. (2018) Tan, X. Z., Vázquez, M., Carter, E. J., Morales, C. G., & Steinfeld, A. (2018, February). Inducing bystander interventions during robot abuse with social mechanisms. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 169-177).
Tolmeijer et al. (2020) Tolmeijer, S., Weiss, A., Hanheide, M., Lindner, F., Powers, T. M., Dixon, C., & Tielman, M. L. (2020, March). Taxonomy of Trust-Relevant Failures and Mitigation Strategies. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 3-12).
Vilk and Fitter (2020) Vilk, J., & Fitter, N. T. (2020, March). Comedians in Cafes Getting Data: Evaluating Timing and Adaptivity in Real-World Robot Comedy Performance. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 223-231).
Vollmer et al. (2018) Vollmer, A. L., Read, R., Trippas, D., & Belpaeme, T. (2018). Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity. Science Robotics, 3(21), eaat7111.