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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Week 8
No Classes
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No classes – Spring break!
Readings will be posted
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Week 9
3/9 & 3/11
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Modeling Social Understanding and Reasoning
Technical Foundations:
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Week 10
3/16 & 3/18
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Training Interactive Social Agents
Technical Foundations:
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Week 11
3/23 & 3/25
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Multimodal and Embodied Social Agents
Technical Foundations:
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Week 12
3/30 & 4/1
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Statistical Models of Social Interactions
Technical Foundations:
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Week 13
4/6 & 4/8
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Social Memory and Causal Reasoning
Technical Foundations:
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Week 14
4/13 & 4/15
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Ethics and Societal Impacts
Readings will be posted
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Week 15
4/20 & 4/22
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Project Presentations
Readings will be posted
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