Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to Human-Robot Interaction is part one of the Human-Robot Interaction professional certificate.

This course provides a broad overview of the multidisciplinary topics central to modern Human-Robot Interaction research and introduces all the relevant background concepts; describing how robots work, how to design them, and the specifics of spatial and non-verbal interaction.

• The basic concepts, principles and ideas of human-robot interaction.

• How robots work from the perspective of software and hardware.

• Different types of sensors and actuators a robot could use.

• Typical software architectures to control robots.

• The process of designing human-robot interaction focusing on all the necessary steps to consider.

• Two interaction modalities that do not rely on speech: spatial interaction and non-verbal interaction.