Seminar on Human-like Artificial Agents (Summer 2018/19)

Dates (SIS)

Mondays, 17:20, S8

Seminar Terms

• You must attend the seminar regularly
  • If you’re late (more than 5 minutes) and you have not excused one day prior to the seminar, you will have to buy 1l of juice / handful of candies for the rest of us as compensation 😉
• You must give at least one presentation on a chosen topic
  • Typically your bachelor/master thesis
• You must act as an opponent for one presentation
• You must choose, read critically, present and comment on possible shortcomings on one research paper
  • Concentrate not only on the idea but critically assess how well the paper is written, how well is the paper contribution described, what it claims and how the paper proves/backs the claims (or does not), what data it reports and in what form (and whether the data are reported clearly, how well they back the claims, etc.), if there is a soft discussion in the paper summarize and feedback on that as well
  • Choose your paper (preferably) from the following sources:
• If the need arises, you will have to participate in some experiment (e.g., evaluating software or project of your colleague)

Papers to choose from

Structure of the Paper Presentation

1. Summarize what the paper talks about, what is its take-home-message (10-15 minutes)
2. Critically feedback the writing of the paper (5-10 minutes), e.g.:
   1. They claimed something at the beginning, that they did not deliver;
   2. the hypothesis was clear but the experiment is not designed so it may bring fruitful data;
   3. the data reported, when you try to interpret them, is not supporting the discussion within the paper;
   4. is the experiment replicable?
   5. Etc…

Seminar Schedule