Abstract:This article illustrates how HRI can be a useful vehicle for exposing technologist students (e.g., in computer science or engineering) to social aspects of technology and to the concrete benefits that a socially aware perspective can bring to technology design, implementation, and use. The article details the strategy and layout taken with the graduate-level Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) course at the University of Manitoba, Canada, between 2011 and 2015, for the purposes of introducing students to social cons… Show more
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