With the exception of the first two weeks of content, the course will have the following format: Mondays will focus on course projects, with project teams meeting instructors to discuss research, and Wednesdays will be the discussion day for weekly readings. The topics and schedule below are subject to modification with fair notice.
All readings can be accessed online or through Canvas.
Week 1
1/12 & 1/14
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Course Introduction
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Week 2
1/21
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Social Intelligence and Competence
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Week 3
1/26 & 1/28
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Social Interaction and Measurements
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Week 4
2/2 & 2/4
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Emotional Intelligence
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Week 5
2/9 & 2/11
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Social Cognition and Social Interactions
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Week 6
2/16 & 2/18
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Evaluation and Measurement of Social Constructs
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Week 7
2/23 & 2/25
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Social Knowledge and Modeling Benchmarks
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Will be posted
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Week 8
No Classes
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No classes – Spring break
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Will be posted
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Week 9
3/9 & 3/11
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Social Simulation and World Models
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Will be posted
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Week 10
3/16 & 3/18
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Modeling Social Understanding and Reasoning
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Will be posted
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Week 11
3/23 & 3/25
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Text-Based Dialogue Agents
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Will be posted
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Week 12
3/30 & 4/1
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Multimodal Virtual Agents
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Will be posted
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Week 13
4/6 & 4/8
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Social Robots
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Will be posted
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Week 14
4/13 & 4/15
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Ethics and Societal Impacts
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Will be posted
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Week 15
4/20 & 4/22
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Project Presentations
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Will be posted
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