MAS.965 | Spring 2005 | Graduate

Relational Machines

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.
Learning Resource Types
Lecture Notes
Projects with Examples
A photograph of the robot Leo.  Leo stands before three plunger style buttons with its hand on the center button.
The robot Leo. (Image courtesy of Andrea Lockerd and Guy Hoffman.)