The robot Leo. (Image courtesy of Andrea Lockerd and Guy Hoffman.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Cynthia Breazeal
MIT Course Number
MAS.965
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building relational machines through a combination of studio-style design and critique along with lecture, lively discussion of course readings, and assignments. Insights from social psychology, human-computer interaction, and design will be examined, as well as how these ideas are manifest in a broad range of applications for software agents and robots.