Courses

Archive of University of Michigan courses taught by Patricia Alves-Oliveira.

ROB 340: Human Evaluation of Robots

Covers fundamentals of how robots can be evaluated by human users to better understand the success of robotic systems. Provides insight into various types of metrics, studies, and analyses used to understand a robot system's performance through human feedback.

Topics: Metrics and analysis for human studies of robots, measuring human performance in the context of robotic systems, and exploring how robot behaviors are perceived by humans.

ROB 498/599: Design for Human-Robot Interaction

This advanced course covers fundamentals of Design for Human-Robot Interaction. This course will prepare students to be full-stack interaction robot designers.

Topics: Frameworks for robot design, ideation strategies for robotics, participatory design, mock-up / prototype creation, qualitative / quantitative key-performance indicators, and design ethics.

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Instructors: Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Long-Jing Hsu, Atharva S. Kashyap · IA: Trey Davis