The following table contains the course and lab meeting schedule with links to the readings. For course meetings where there is a required reading assignment, the following items are due by 12:00pm (noon) the day of class:
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(s) | Peer-Reviewers | Topic | Reading(s) or Tasks to Complete Beforehand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Mar 24 | Lecture | Sarah Sebo | Introduction to HRI & the course | ||
| Wed, Mar 26 | Discussion | Sarah Sebo | Robot Embodiment | Bainbridge et al. (2011) | |
| Thu, Mar 27 | Lab | Lab 1: HRI Study Design | Hoffman and Zhao (2020) | ||
| Mon, Mar 31 | Discussion | C.U. R.C. S.K. | Li.L. He.W. T.L. | Verbal Behavior: Asking Questions | Ito et al. (2025) |
| Wed, Apr 2 | Discussion | Li.L. Ha.W. X.Z. | Mi.B. B.S. D.N. | Verbal Behavior: Human-Robot Conversations | Skantze and Irfan (2025) |
| Thu, Apr 3 | Lab | Lab 2: Project Team Formation | Submit 1-3 project pitches in this Google Doc | ||
| Mon, Apr 7 | Discussion | Mi.B. A.R. D.L. | X.Z. Lo.L. T.H. Ha.W. | Nonverbal Behavior: Sudden Robot Stops | Du et al. (2025) |
| Wed, Apr 9 | Discussion | M.G. N.K. He.W. | Mi.B. A.R. D.L. | Nonverbal Behavior: Nodding | Carsenti et al. (2025) |
| Thu, Apr 10 | Lab | Lab 3: Robot Programming 1 - Hello Misty | Complete the Preparing Your Development Environment steps on the Lab 3 page | ||
| Mon, Apr 14 | Guest Presentation |
Social Dynamics: Trust
Guest Presenter: Vivienne Chi |
Chi and Malle (2024) | ||
| Wed, Apr 16 | Discussion | Ma.B. P.V. D.N. | S.K. R.C. T.S. D.L. | Social Dynamics: Rapport | Pineda et al. (2025) |
| Thu, Apr 17 | Lab | Lab 4: Robot Programming 2 - Wizard of Oz | |||
| Mon, Apr 21 | Discussion | T.L. T.S. Lo.L. | Li.L. M.G. N.K. | Design: Robot-Assisted Feeding |
Nanavati et al. (2023)
Optional: Nanavati et al. (2025) |
| Wed, Apr 23 | Guest Presentation |
Design: On-Body Robots for Older Adults
Guest Presenter: Victor Antony |
Antony et al. (2025) | ||
| Thu, Apr 24 | Lab | Lab 5: Robot Programming 3 - LLM-Based Human-Robot Dialogue | Complete the Preparing Your Development Environment steps on the Lab 5 page | ||
| Mon, Apr 28 | Discussion | C.Z. T.H. B.S. Mi.B. | P.V. D.N. Ma.B. X.Z. | Robot Learning: Generating Expressive Robot Behaviors with LLMs | Mahadevan et al. (2024) |
| Wed, Apr 30 | Discussion | X.Z. C.U. T.S. | A.R. R.C. M.G. C.Z. | Robot Learning: Robot Interactions in Groups with Template- and Graph-based Modeling | Gillet et al. (2025) |
| Thu, May 1 | Lab | Lab 6: Quantitative Data Analysis | |||
| Mon, May 5 | Discussion | A.R. D.N. Li.L. P.V. | Ma.B. C.U. D.L. | Agency & Autonomy: Children's Social and Moral Perceptions of Robots | Kahn et al. (2012) |
| Wed, May 7 | Discussion | T.H. Ma.B. B.S. | P.V. S.K. R.C. C.Z. | Agency & Autonomy: Influence of Perceived Agency on Fairness Judgments | Claure et al. (2025) |
| Thu, May 8 | Lab | Lab 7: Qualitative Data Analysis | |||
| Mon, May 12 | Discussion | D.L. Lo.L. N.K. | T.S. X.Z. He.W. | Other Topics: Robot Abuse | Brščić et al. (2015) |
| Wed, May 14 | Discussion | He.W. T.L. C.Z. | B.S. D.N. T.H. N.K. | Other Topics: Telepresence Robots | Hu et al. (2025) |
| Thu, May 15 | Lab | Lab 8: Project Work Time | |||
| Mon, May 19 | Discussion | R.C. S.K. M.G. | C.U. T.L. Lo.L. C.Z. | Other Topics: Social Role of the Robot | Shen et al. (2025) |
| Wed, May 21 | Lab | Lab 9: Project Work Time | |||
| Thu, May 22 | Lab | Lab 10: Project Work Time | |||
| Wed, May 28 | Presentation | Project Presentations (during finals period: Wed 12:30pm - 2:30pm) |
The following table includes the links to the course readings as well as their full bibliographic references.
| Short Reference | Bibliographic Reference |
|---|---|
| Antony et al. (2025) | Antony, V. N., Jeon, C., Li, J., Gao, G., Peng, H., Ostrowski, A. K., & Huang, C. M. (2025). The Design of On-Body Robots for Older Adults. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 589-598). |
| 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. |
| Carsenti et al. (2025) | Carsenti, E., Manor, A., Oberlender, A., Parush, A., & Erel, H. (2025, March). Raising Stars: Influences of Robotic Peer Liking on Emergent Leadership. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 447-457). |
| Chi and Malle (2024) | Chi, V. B., & Malle, B. F. (2024, March). Interactive human-robot teaching recovers and builds trust, even with imperfect learners. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 127-136). |
| Claure et al. (2025) | Claure, H., Shin, I., Trafton, J. G., & Vázquez, M. (2025). Did the Robot Really Intend to Harm Me? The Effect of Perceived Agency and Intention on Fairness Judgements. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 889-898). |
| Du et al. (2025) | Du, K., Brščić, D., & Kanda, T. (2025, March). Don't Just Stop Here! Human-Inspired Solutions for Sudden Robot Stops. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 293-302). |
| Gillet et al. (2025) | Gillet, S., Thompson, S., Leite, I., & Vázquez, M. (2025). Templates and Graph Neural Networks for Social Robots Interacting in Small Groups of Varying Sizes. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 458-467). |
| Hoffman and Zhao (2020) | Hoffman, G., & Zhao, X. (2020). A primer for conducting experiments in human–robot interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(1), 1-31. |
| Hu et al. (2025) | Hu, Y., Zhu, A., Toma, C. L., & Mutlu, B. (2025). Designing Telepresence Robots to Support Place Attachment. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 252–261). |
| Ito et al. (2025) | Ito, S., Kochigami, K., & Kanda, T. (2025, March). A Robot Dynamically Asking Questions in University Classes. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 839-848). |
| 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. |
| Mahadevan et al. (2024) | Mahadevan, K., Chien, J., Brown, N., Xu, Z., Parada, C., Xia, F., ... & Sadigh, D. (2024). Generative expressive robot behaviors using large language models. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 482-491). |
| Nanavati et al. (2023) | Nanavati, A., Alves-Oliveira, P., Schrenk, T., Gordon, E. K., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2023). Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 24-33). |
| Nanavati et al. (2025) | Nanavati, A., Gordon, E. K., Kessler Faulkner, T. A., Song, Y., Ko, J., Schrenk, T., ... & Srinivasa, S. S. (2025). Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-Assisted Feeding System for Out-of-Lab Use. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 696-707). |
| Pineda et al. (2025) | Pineda, K. T., Brown, E., & Huang, C. M. (2025). " See You Later, Alligator": Impacts of Robot Small Talk on Task, Rapport, and Interaction Dynamics in Human-Robot Collaboration. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 819-828). |
| Shen et al. (2025) | Shen, J., Lee, A., Alghowinem, S., Adkins, R., Breazeal, C., & Park, H. W. (2025). Social Robots as Social Proxies for Fostering Connection and Empathy Towards Humanity. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 989-999). |
| Skantze and Irfan (2025) | Skantze, G., & Irfan, B. (2025). Applying general turn-taking models to conversational human-robot interaction. In 2025 ACM. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 859-868). |