Course schedule
- Baraka, K. (Kim)
- b.borsboom
- Bruijn, M.C. de (Mark)
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.
Date | Activity | Topic | Assignment | Deliverables |
Week 43 (Course not yet started, but preparation required!) Preparation for the SIR 2023 course | ||||
Sunday 29-10 Deadline: 23:59 | Course preparation | Install the Social Interaction Cloud (SIC) Test script Here 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 30-10 17:30-19:15 Location: Theater3-NU-2C33 | Lecture 1
| Hello, SIR. Kim Baraka  |
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Wednesday 01-11 13:30-15:15 Location: WN-Q105 | Lecture 2
| I am a social robot. Dimensions of social robot design  Kim Baraka | Read: “An extended framework for characterizing social robots” (Baraka, Alves-Olveira et al.) | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
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 6-11 17:30-19:15 Location: Theater3-NU-2C33 | Lecture 3
| Expanding Performance: Dramaturgy for Devices Guest lecture  Laura Karreman 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 8-11 12:45 - 13:30 Location: WN-Q105 | Q&A session SIC | Ask away about SIC Mike Ligthart Robot Programming Team (RPT) | Register here. |
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Wednesday 8-11 13:30-15:15 Location: WN-Q105 | Lecture 4
| Talk to Me. Merle Reimann (part 1) 
Mike Ligthart (part 2) 
| Paper Video | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 10-11 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 13-11 17:30-19:15 Location: Theater3-NU-2C33 | 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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Monday/Tuesday /Wednesday/Thursday /Friday | Practical session 3 @VU Campus Intertain or SAIL lab (Feedback from teachers on interaction problem assignment + RQ - in the lab) |
| See robot software part in weekly milestones | Update your Github repository |
Wednesday 15-11 13:30 - 15:15 Location: WN-Q105
| Lecture 6
| Show me your moves. Nonverbal Expression Koen Hindriks 
| Paper | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59) |
Friday 17-11 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
| 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 20-11 17:30-19:15 Location: Theater3-NU-2C33 | Lecture 7
| I see you, do you see me? Socially aware robots Koen Hindriks  Thomas Wiggers 
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Tutorial 5: Face Detection and Recognition using Computer Vision |
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Wednesday 22-11 13:30-15:15 Location: WN-Q105 | Lecture 8
| Making sense of the mess. Data analysis Kim Baraka  |
| Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by 23:59 the next day) (so 23-11 23:59) |
Friday 24-11 | 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 | |
Wednesday 29-11 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 29-11 13:30 - 15:15 Location: WN-Q105 | Lecture 9 | We meet again.  Mike Ligthart | Paper | Individual micro-assignment (to be submitted on Canvas by Friday 01-12 23:59) |
Friday 01-12 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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Wednesday 06-12 13:30-15:15 Location: WN-Q105 Attendance is mandatory! | Lecture 10 | Do's and Don'ts. Ethical Considerations Mike Ligthart, Kim Baraka, Bob Borsboom
Join Zoom Meeting | “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. | Read the paper before the lecture and fill in the google form which is announced on Canvas |
Friday 8-12 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 8-12 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 13-12 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 17-12 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 17-12 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 18-12 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 19-12 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: see schedule below Session 2: Groups: see schedule below |
| 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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Group | Session end presentation |
1 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
2 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
3 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
4 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
5 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
6 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
7 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
8 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
9 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
10 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
11 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
12 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
13 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
14 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
15 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
16 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
17 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
18 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
19 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
20 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
21 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
22 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
23 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
24 | 13:00 - 15:00 |
25 | 10:00 - 12:00 |
26 | 13:00 - 15:00 |