Course Schedule

The following table contains the course meeting schedule with links to the readings. By 8:30am the day of class, make your 1 minimum required analytical comment and, if we are having a guest speaker, also make your 1 minimum required question on the reading using hypothes.is (making your annotations in the group “CMSC33281 Winter 2023”). If you are the discussion lead for an upcoming class, you must submit your PDF slides to the Discussion Lead Slides Google Drive folder by 9:30am 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 syllabus 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, Jan 4 Lecture Prof Sebo Introduction to HRI & the course
Fri, Jan 6 Discussion Prof Sebo Robot Embodiment Bainbridge et al. (2011)
Mon, Jan 9 Discussion L.W. Verbal Behavior: Emotion Pelikan et al. (2020)
Optional: Jung (2017)
Wed, Jan 11 Guest Presentation Verbal Behavior: Humor
Guest Speaker: Haley Green
Green et al. (2022)
Fri, Jan 13 Project Team Formation Present Project Pitches & Project Team Formation
Mon, Jan 16 No Class: MLKJ Day
Wed, Jan 18 Discussion J.G. Nonverbal Behavior: Gestures Admoni et al. (2016)
Fri, Jan 20 Discussion D.K. Nonverbal Behavior: Gaze Gillet et al. (2022)
Optional: Admoni and Scassellati (2017)
Mon, Jan 23 Discussion K.W. Social Dynamics: Trust Robinette et al. (2016)
Wed, Jan 25 Guest Presentation Social Dynamics: Trust
Guest Speaker: Franziska Babel
Babel et al. (2022)
Optional: Baker et al. (2018)
Fri, Jan 27 Discussion S.C. Social Dynamics: Conformity Masjutin et al. (2022)
Mon, Jan 30 Discussion A.D. Norms/Ethics: Harsh Treatment of Robots Kahn et al. (2012)
Wed, Feb 1 Discussion G.Z. Norms/Ethics: Ethics de Graaf (2016)
Fri, Feb 3 Guest Presentation Norms/Ethics: Social Norms
Guest Presenter: Ruchen (Puck) Wen
Wen et al. (2022)
Optional: Malle et al. (2019)
Mon, Feb 6 Discussion M.A. Collaboration & Learning: Planning for Human Non-Optimality Kwon et al. (2020)
Wed, Feb 8 Discussion T.A. Collaboration & Learning: Human Repair of RL Policies van Waveren et al. (2022)
Optional: Chernova and Thomaz (2014)
Fri, Feb 10 Discussion S.L. Collaboration & Learning: Expressive Robot Motion Zhou et al. (2017)
Mon, Feb 13 Discussion M.Q. Group Interactions: Robot Interactions with Groups Booth et al. (2017)
Optional: Sebo et al. (2020)
Wed, Feb 15 Discussion Prof Sebo Group Interactions: Carryover Effects Erel et al. (2022)
Fri, Feb 17 Discussion D.W. Group Interactions: Multiple Robots Reig et al. (2021)
Mon, Feb 20 Discussion A.K. Applications: Education Ramachandran et al. (2018)
Optional: Belpaeme et al. (2018)
Wed, Feb 22 Discussion N.P. Applications: Public Spaces Brščić et al. (2015)
Fri, Feb 24 Discussion H.P. Applications: Older Adult Care Ostrowski et al. (2022)
Optional: Sharkey and Sharkey (2012)
Mon, Feb 27 Discussion A.P. Future Challenges in HRI: Long-Term HRI Weiss et al. (2021)
Optional: Leite et al. (2013)
Wed, Mar 1 Presentation Final Project Presentations
Fri, Mar 3 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 et al. (2016) Admoni, H., Weng, T., Hayes, B., & Scassellati, B. (2016, March). Robot nonverbal behavior improves task performance in difficult collaborations. In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 51-58). IEEE.
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.
Babel et al. (2022) Babel, F., Hock, P., Kraus, J., & Baumann, M. (2022, March). It Will not take long! Longitudinal effects of robot conflict resolution strategies on compliance, acceptance and trust. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 225-235). IEEE.
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.
Baker et al. (2018) Baker, A. L., Phillips, E. K., Ullman, D., & Keebler, J. R. (2018). Toward an understanding of trust repair in human-robot interaction: Current research and future directions. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 8(4), 1-30.
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).
Brščić 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).
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.
de Graaf (2016) de Graaf, M. M. (2016). An ethical evaluation of human–robot relationships. International journal of social robotics, 8(4), 589-598.
Erel et al. (2022) Erel, H., Carsenti, E., & Zuckerman, O. (2022, March). A carryover effect in hri: Beyond direct social effects in human-robot interaction. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 342-352). IEEE.
Gillet et al. (2022) Gillet, S., Parreira, M. T., Vázquez, M., & Leite, I. (2022, March). Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 265-274).
Green et al. (2022) Green, H. N., Islam, M. M., Ali, S., & Iqbal, T. (2022, March). Who's laughing nao? examining perceptions of failure in a humorous robot partner. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 313-322). IEEE.
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.
Kahn et al. (2012) Kahn Jr, P. H., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Freier, N. G., Severson, R. L., Gill, B. T., ... & Shen, S. (2012). “Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now”: Children's social and moral relationships with a humanoid robot. Developmental psychology, 48(2), 303.
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).
Leite et al. (2013) Leite, I., Martinho, C., & Paiva, A. (2013). Social robots for long-term interaction: a survey. International Journal of Social Robotics, 5(2), 291-308.
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).
Masjutin et al. (2022) Masjutin, L., Laing, J. K., & Maier, G. W. (2022, March). Why do We Follow Robots? An Experimental Investigation of Conformity with Robot, Human, and Hybrid Majorities. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 139-146). IEEE.
Ostrowski et al. (2022) Ostrowski, A. K., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2022, March). Mixed-Method Long-Term Robot Usage: Older Adults' Lived Experience of Social Robots. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 33-42). IEEE.
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 et al. (2018) Ramachandran, A., Huang, C. M., Gartland, E., & Scassellati, B. (2018, February). Thinking aloud with a tutoring robot to enhance learning. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 59-68).
Reig et al. (2021) Reig, S., Carter, E. J., Fong, T., Forlizzi, J., & Steinfeld, A. (2021, March). Flailing, hailing, prevailing: Perceptions of multi-robot failure recovery strategies. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 158-167).
Robinette et al. (2016) Robinette, P., Li, W., Allen, R., Howard, A. M., & Wagner, A. R. (2016, March). Overtrust of robots in emergency evacuation scenarios. In 2016 11th ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction (HRI) (pp. 101-108). IEEE.
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.
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.
van Waveren et al. (2022) van Waveren, S., Pek, C., Tumova, J., & Leite, I. (2022). Correct Me If I'm Wrong: Using Non-Experts to Repair Reinforcement Learning Policies. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1-9).
Weiss et al. (2021) Weiss, A., Pillinger, A., & Tsiourti, C. (2021, August). Merely a Conventional ‘Diffusion’Problem? On the Adoption Process of Anki Vector. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 712-719). IEEE.
Wen et al. (2022) Wen, R., Han, Z., & Williams, T. (2022, January). Teacher, Teammate, Subordinate, Friend: Generating Norm Violation Responses Grounded in Role-based Relational Norms. In HRI (pp. 353-362).
Zhou et al. (2017) Zhou, A., Hadfield-Menell, D., Nagabandi, A., & Dragan, A. D. (2017, March). Expressive robot motion timing. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE international conference on human-robot interaction (pp. 22-31).