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• Course DescriptionThis course explores the historical and state-of-art issues in virtual agents and social or personal assistive robots. Particular topics to be covered include: human factors, context-aware computing, intelligibility, affordability, security and privacy, accessibility, affective computing, interruptions in human-computer interaction, location-based computing, activity recognition, and social concerns. The course will primarily consist of discussion of reading assignments. Guests from academia and industrial research labs will be invited to facilitate discussion as appropriate. This course will focus more on class discussions and demos rather than lectures.