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, …
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.
Course Info
Learning Resource Types
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Lecture Notes
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Projects with Examples
![A photograph of the robot Leo. Leo stands before three plunger style buttons with its hand on the center button.](/courses/mas-965-relational-machines-spring-2005/169eb340b3f07123238332e56a58ddc8_mas-965s05.jpg)
The robot Leo. (Image courtesy of Andrea Lockerd and Guy Hoffman.)