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This hands-on specialist module provides an in-depth understanding of Human Robot Interaction (HRI), focusing on the key modalities through which humans and robots interact, including verbal, non-verbal (such as pose and affect), spatial, and tactile interactions. Students will explore the sensors and actuators enabling these modalities and examine the underlying technologies, such as automatic speech recognition, human pose estimation, emotion recognition, and multimodal algorithms. The module emphasizes critical human factors in HRI, including safety, explainability, trust, shared autonomy and decision-making, and workload management. It introduces design methodologies to create HRI studies using simulations, wizard-of-Oz style tasks and real-world experiments and participatory approaches to create interactive robotics systems widely accepted by users. The module also covers evaluation techniques using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Finally, learners will investigate real-world HRI applications and use cases, including collaborative robots (cobots), social robots, and robots for wellbeing and education, equipping them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge to design and assess advanced HRI systems.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

This module will provide an overview of human sexuality, sexual behaviour, and sexual diversity.

Human understanding comes in many forms, though science in particular is often today lauded as its highest form. But what is science, and how does it differ from other forms of human understanding? What distinctive challenges arise for science when—in the social sciences—it turns its focus back upon ourselves? And what will science not tell us? Is there a place for distinctive forms of understanding that art, literature and the humanities can provide? These questions raise many further issues, such as whether our efforts to understand our world are always value-laden, what part identifying general laws might play in those efforts, and what kinds of objectivity any of these efforts might achieve. This module will explore some of these profound issues.

Human understanding comes in many forms, though science in particular is often today lauded as its highest form. But what is science, and how does it differ from other forms of human understanding? What distinctive challenges arise for science when—in the social sciences—it turns its focus back upon ourselves? And what will science not tell us? Is there a place for distinctive forms of understanding that art, literature and the humanities can provide? These questions raise many further issues, such as whether our efforts to understand our world are always value-laden, what part identifying general laws might play in those efforts, and what kinds of objectivity any of these efforts might achieve. This module will explore some of these profound issues.

Human Centred Design (HCD) is a design process and philosophy that prioritises the needs, desires, and limitations of the people who will be using a product or service, and it is a mindset that prioritises people and their experiences. It emphasises understanding the user's context, involving them throughout the design process, and iteratively refining solutions based on user feedback. This approach aims to create usable, useful, and desirable solutions that effectively address real human needs. The core principles of HCD are empathy, user involvement, an iterative design approach, a holistic perspective of the context of use, and a systematic approach to the problem.

This module will develop the following key HCD characteristics in students: understanding users, defining problems – scope and root causes, generating ideas, low fidelity prototyping, evaluation and iteration. These in turn with help to provide the following benefits in the designs produced using an HCD process: increased usability and understandability, improved user satisfaction, reduced development times and costs, increased innovation, and better outcomes that are effective and impactful solutions that address real human needs.

This module is designed for MSc Human Factors & Ergonomics (and other MSc) students to supplement their technical modules, to develop their design process and abilities, and to give experience of undertaking a creative design project. Through a broad range of lectures, seminars and workshops delivered by academics, researchers and designers, students will be exposed to and learn techniques to initiate, plan, lead and manage design projects. The module will offer a structured approach that will cover the interdisciplinary aspects of human centred design, including the development of viable design solutions within the wider international socioeconomic context. Students will also acquire essential design skills for the whole design process from problem framing through to ideation, concept selection and design development, and technical communication using a variety of methods and media.