The students choose a topic from the field of human-robot interaction, e.g. attention modelling, socially-aware navigation, social gestures generation or metrics for HRI experiments. They conduct a literature research on this topic under the guidance of a scientific supervisor. At the end of the semester, they present the results and write an elaboration in English in the form of a scientific publication.

Competency Goals:

The students gain experience with literature research on a current research topic. They explore, understand and compare different approaches to a selected scientific problem. The students are able to write a summary of their literature research in the form of a scientific publication in English and give a scientific talk on it.

Workload: 

Seminar with 2 SWS, 3 LP.

3 LP corresponds to approx. 90 hours, of which

approx. 45 hours of literature research

approx. 25 hrs. elaboration

approx. 10 hrs. preparation of presentation

approx. 10 hrs. compulsory attendance

Competency certificate: 

The assessment is carried out as an examination of another type (§ 4 Abs. 2 No. 3 SPO). The overall impression is evaluated. The following partial aspects are included in the grading: Term paper (approx. 6 pages in double-column format), Presentation (duration approx. 10+10 min.).