Entry requirements

120 credits including 15 credits in mathematics and 60 credits in computer science/information systems, including 20 credits in programming/algorithms/data structures. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• select appropriate computational techniques and machine learning methods and write programs that use these for automatic detection and analysis of human behaviours and states
• determine appropriate design approaches to build social perception abilities such as analyzing and recognising human behaviours and higher level social states and variables (e.g., emotions) based on behavioural features
• apply basic principles of socially adaptive behaviour in embodied interactive systems
• apply basic principles of design and evaluation of human-machine interaction
• evaluate the impact that affect recognition, behaviour detection, and similar technologies may have on ethical values like privacy and autonomy, and to suggest strategies for fulfiling values that are important for users and society at large, including minimisation of negative consequences

Content

Topics include face and body detection and tracking, facial and body feature detection and tracking, facial expression and gesture recognition, automatic analysis of multimodal behaviour, automatic inference of affect and social signals, machine embodiment and behaviour generation, human-agent and human-robot interaction, ethics in intelligent interactive systems.

Instruction

Lectures and tutoring.

Assessment

Written assignments, oral and written presentation of a project.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.

Other regulations

The course may not be included in the same degree as 1MD039 Intelligent Interactive Systems.