I did this presentation for the Workshop of the HRI'15 : HRI Education Workshop: How to design and teach courses in Human-Robot Interaction organised by Selma Savanovic, Carlotta Berry and Cindy Bethel. Juergen Brandstetter did the presentation, march, 2015.

1. Making HRI accessible
to everyone
through
online videos.
Sandoval, Mubin, Brandstetter

2. Motivation
• Attract students
• Explain our work to our grandparents
• Public benefit of research outreach

3. Robot Gangnam Style! (2012)
Eugene in Aotearoa (2014)
Introduction to HRI (2015)
Our experience

4. Outcomes
• Robot dances Gangnam Style ☺
( 696,658 views in Youtube )
• Eugene in Aotearoa
( < 1,000 views in Youtube and Vimeo )
• Introduction to HRI
( < 350 views in two Youtube channels ) ☹

5. Flaws in online videos in general
• Too long
• No promotion
• No way to measure their educative impact

7. Problems with MOOCs
• Low rate of termination
• Lecture fatigue
• Poor design
• Essentially are video records of a lecture!
Also
• MTV and YouTube generation

8. Improvements to help HRI outreach
• Reach out children
• Inspired marketing
• Attractive design
• Emphasis in the human aspects of HRI
• Accessible knowledge
• MOOCs ??

9. A Proposal for
a
µMOOC
in
HRI

10. A μMOOC in HRI should be:
• Cool!
• Engaging
• Simple and easy
• Short (2-3 minutes videos, 1-2 weeks)
• Free access
• Local/Remote support

11. It is very important
that people know
about HRI

12. Conclusions
Let’s do it Now!
μMOOC HRI