Looking for the Human in HRI Teaching: User-Centered Course Design for Tech-Savvy Students
<|reference_start|>Looking for the Human in HRI Teaching: User-Centered Course Design for Tech-Savvy Students: Top-down, user-centered thinking is not typically a strength of all students, especially tech-savvy computer science-related ones. We propose Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) introductory courses as a highly suitable opportunity to foster these important skills since the HRI discipline includes a focus on humans as users. Our HRI course therefore contains elements like scenario-based design of laboratory projects, discussing and merging ideas and other self-empowerment techniques. Participants describe, implement and present everyday scenarios using Pepper robots and our customized open-source visual programming tool. We observe that students obtain a good grasp of the taught topics and improve their user-centered thinking skills.<|reference_end|>
@article{doernbach2024looking,
    title={Looking for the Human in HRI Teaching: User-Centered Course Design for
  Tech-Savvy Students},
    author={Tobias Doernbach},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12607},
    year={2024},
    number={HRI101/2024/7},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.12607},
    primaryClass={cs.RO cs.HC}
}