COUHES for Class Projects:
All projects that involve research on human participants must, by MIT rules, have the prior approval of the MIT Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES). If you can piggyback on a current COUHES protocol your advisor or Prof Picard has, that is ideal. If not, you need to MOVE FAST because the fall COUHES meeting dates require applications to be in by either Sep 20 for approval by their meeting on Oct 17, or submitted by Oct 31 for their meeting on Nov 21. Also, the Media Lab (Linda Peterson or Mitch Resnick) wants it a week before for sign off before giving it to COUHES. If you've never done one of these, you should start this more than two weeks before the COUHES submission deadline. Please plan to meet w/Prof. Picard to brainstorm project ideas as soon as possible and let's work together to help you have a great and successful experience.

Class Schedule: 1. Tuesday Sep 10    Introduction to Affective Computing, Prof. Rosalind Picard 2. Tuesday Sep 17   Emotion sensors and sensing, Picard 3. Tuesday Sep 24   Facial expression technologies, Dan McDuff, Research Assistant, MIT 4. Tuesday Oct 1   Guest: Dr. Stephen Schueller, Northwestern Univ. Pls book a slot with kbonikow@media on FRIDAY Oct 11 for your group to discuss your project with Picard 5. Tuesday Oct 8   Physiology-based affect recognition, Picard Project Proposal Ideas Due - Draft 1 - Picard will plan to give you personalized feedback on your ideas by Oct 15 (Tuesday Oct 15 - No Classes at MIT; Columbus Day Holiday) (Tuesday Oct 22 - No Classes because of Media Lab Members Mtg, BUT your Project Proposal Final Plan is DUE by midnight tonight) 6. Tuesday Oct 29 Moodmeter, MACH, Stress in Call Centers, Cardiocam, Inside Out, and other cool technologies from the Media Lab, Picard and RA Javier Hernandez Rivera, Research Assistant   7. Tuesday Nov 5   Project Progress Presentations and Feedback 8. Tuesday Nov 12   Guest: Dr. Sep Kamvar, MIT 9. Tuesday Nov 19   Guest: Dr. Ioannis Pavlidis, Univ. Houston - Noncontact measures of stress and deception 10. Tuesday Nov 26   How can affective technologies enhance or injure respect for human feelings? 11. Tuesday Dec 3   Final Project Presentations 12. Tuesday Dec 10   Final Project Presentations, Closing Discussion

Sample Topics - Final choices will be made after taking input from this year's class: Affective Human Computer Interaction Emotion and Perception, Decision-making, and Creativity Emotion and Learning Physiology of Emotion Neuroscience Findings Related to Emotion Affect Recognition by Machines (incl. wearable systems) Communicating Frustration/Stress in Autism and in Customer Experience Responding to User Emotion to Reduce User Frustration Inducing Emotion Robots/Agents that "have" Emotion Emotion and Behavior Expression of Emotion by Machines/Agents/Synthetic characters Philosophical, Social, Ethical Implications of Affective Computing Machine/Mobile Empathy and Emotional Support Lie Detection Evaluation: 25% Classroom participation 35% Eight assignments (reading/response) 40% Project and presentation Project: You will be required to complete a project for the course. As a part of this project you are asked to submit a proposal draft by Tuesday Oct 8 and a final proposal Tuesday Oct 22. Project progress presentations will occur on Tuesday Nov 5. Attendance on project proposal and final project presentation days is required and counts substantially toward your "class participation" grade. Students learn A LOT from seeing each others projects so don't miss these days! 2011 Project Examples, 2008 Project Examples, 2005 Project Examples.