Course schedule
- Baraka, K. (Kim)
- Koen Hindriks
- Hindriks, K.V. (Koen)
- Ündes, B. (Bülent)
Below you can find a schedule containing both planned lectures and weekly deliverables with deadlines for each part of your course assignment. Make sure to keep track of deadlines!
IMPORTANT: The schedule is tentative and may change throughout the course. If that is the case, we will inform you on Slack and on Canvas, so make sure you keep track of Slack messages and consult this page frequently.
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Week 43 (Course not yet started, but preparation required!) Preparation for the SIR 2022 course | ||||
Sunday 30-10 Deadline: 23:59 | Course preparation | Install the Social Interaction Cloud (SIC) Test script PDF  Check out the course assignment page | Report your test results in this Google form (see the test script)
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Week 44 (Course week 1) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 1 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | See robot software part in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository | |
Monday 31-10 17:30-19:15 Location: WN - M143 | Lecture 1
| Hello, SIR. Koen Hindriks 
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Wednesday 02-11 13:30-15:15 Location: WN-D107 | Lecture 2
| I am a social robot. Dimensions of social robot design  Kim Baraka | “An extended framework for characterizing social robots” (Baraka, Alves-Olveira et al.) | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 04-11 09:00-10:30 Meeting ID: 962 1364 9645 Password: 839066 | Tutorial session on Python API | Introduction to SIC Mike Ligthart
Recording is available on Youtube | Useful resources |
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Week 45 (Course week 2) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 2 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | See robot software part in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository | |
Monday 7-11 17:30-19:15 Location: WN-D107 | Lecture 3
| Expanding Performance: Dramaturgy for Devices  Guest lecture by Irene Alcubilla Troughton (Laura Karreman couldn’t make it) Utrecht University
| “Dramaturgy for Devices: Theatre as Perspective on the Design of Smart Objects” (C. Rozendaal, Marenko, Odom)  Additional video links: 
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Wednesday 9-11 13:30-15:15 | Lecture 4
| SIC & DialogFlow tutorial Mike Ligthart | Useful resources | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 11-11 Deadline: 23:59 | Milestone 2 | See pointers in weekly milestones
| Pick your interaction problem and an associated preliminary key measure See the assignment on Canvas! Update your work logbook! | |
Week 46 (Course week 3) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 3 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | See robot software part in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository | |
Monday 14-11 17:30-19:15 | Lecture 5
| How Did I Do? Evaluating Quality of Interaction  Koen Hindriks | “A Primer for Conducting Experiments in Human–Robot Interaction” (Hoffman, |
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Wednesday 16-11 13:30 - 15:15
| Lecture 6 | Tell Me More. Dialogue Design for a Robot  Guest lecture by Jorrit Thijn on performative narratives. |
| Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 18-11 Deadline: 23:59 | Milestone 3 | See pointers in weekly milestones
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Week 47 (Course week 4) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 4 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab Sessions with UU students present @ VU See planned visit schedule here: 
| Get inspired by UU students | See robot software part in weekly milestones
| Make notes on feedback you got from UU students |
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 4 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab Peer-review session The pairing of the peer-review process can be also seen in the above schedule (UU student visit schedule! | Get inspired by your fellow students |
| Make notes on feedback you got from your fellow students |
Monday 21-11 17:30-19:15 | Lecture 7
| Show me your moves. Nonverbal Expression  Kim Baraka | Deliberate Delays During Robot-to-Human Handovers Improve Compliance With Gaze Communication (Admoni et al.) | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Wednesday 23-11 | Lecture 8
| I see you, do you see me? Socially aware robots  Koen Hindriks |
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Friday 25-11 | Milestone 4 | See pointers in weekly milestones | The first prototype of your socially interactive robot! Update your Github repository; commit a first prototype of your socially interactive robot Update design document Update your work logbook! | |
Week 48 (Course week 5) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 5 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | See robot software part in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository | |
Monday 28-11 17:30-19:15 | Lecture 9
| Teach me something. Robot Cognitive Skills Kim Baraka 
| Revisiting Human-Robot Teaching and Learning Through the Lens of Human Concept Learning (Booth et al., 2022) |
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Wednesday 30-11 23:59 | Deadline Moodboard for students of Utrecht University |
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| Receive moodboard from UU theatre students via slack/upload Google Drive/mail. |
Wednesday 30-11 13:30 - 15:15 | Lecture 10
| Making sense of the mess. Data analysis Kim Baraka 
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| Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 02-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Milestone 5 Update sections design document | See pointers in weekly milestones
| Update design document Reminder: Your evaluation procedure needs to be finished next week(!) Update your work logbook! | |
Week 49 (Course week 6) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 6 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | Finalize your code! | See robot software part in weekly milestones Finalize your code and make sure it is well-documented (reproducibility!) | Update your Github repository; commit the final version of your socially interactive robot |
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Sessions with UU students present @ VU @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab
| Present your project to UU students.
| Make notes of questions and feedback so you an include this in your design document
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Monday 05-12 17:30-19:15
| Lecture 11 | Q&A session Kim Baraka Koen Hindriks |
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Wednesday 07-12 13:30-15:15 Attendance is mandatory! | Lecture 12 | Do's and Don'ts. Ethical Considerations Buelent Uendes online Zoom link: https://vu-live.zoom.us/j/94452682284?pwd=ZjZtYzFwOXN5ZVFxWm1CUEp5aEhTZz09 Meeting ID: 944 5268 2284
| “Societal and Ethical Issues in HRI” (Wullenkord & Eyssel) Please use the paper to guide the formulation of your ethical dilemma that you need to submit prior to the lecture. | Please fill in Google Slides linked under “Lecture 12” before class according to instructions shared on Canvas. |
Friday 9-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Upload your final code to Github.
| See pointers in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository and commit the final version of your software. | |
Friday 9-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Upload evaluation procedure and set-up and materials for the experiment in your Google Drive folder. Update sections design document. Let your TA know who will run/conduct the experiment in your TA group! | Provide your evaluation procedure and materials. See pointers in weekly milestones | Update design document Finalize evaluation procedure and set-up. Upload the evaluation material on Canvas. Update your work logbook! | |
Week 50 (Course week 7) | ||||
Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 7 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab | Evaluation sessions + Make a video of the NAO project and its interaction that functions as a backup for the upcoming final presentation | See software assignment for this week | The experiment schedule can be found here |
Wednesday 14-12 Deadline 23:50 | Deadline Robot review for students of Utrecht University |
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| Receive feedback from UU for your robot project and the presentation that your group has done in the previous week via slack/upload Google Drive/mail. |
Sunday 18-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Upload the final video (recall, this functions only as a backup for next week’s presentation) of your NAO project in the folder ‘final video’ in your Google Drive. | Upload video presentation of your NAO robot in the Google Drive. | ||
Sunday 18-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Prepare the poster (PDF, A0 format!) In essence, the poster should support your final presentation. It should include:
| Upload final poster on Canvas! Please upload a PDF (it must be in A0 format). You can check the following template (you do not need to follow this one!). Be aware that you need to submit it as a PDF file! 
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Week 51 (Course week 8) | ||||
Monday 19-12 Deadline: 23:59 | Finalize design document and submit the final version on Canvas! | Submit final Design Document on Canvas! See pointers in weekly milestones | Finalize the design document Add link to video presentation.
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Tuesday 20-12 Session 1: 10:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 13:00 - 15:00 Lobby of the NU building Attendance is mandatory! | Final presentation Each group will be allocated to one of the two sessions! Session 1: Groups: 1-10 Session 2: Groups: 11-22 |
| Present your final project and show a live demo of your robot (the previously recorded video functions as a backup for the live demo of the NAO robot). Answer questions. |
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