Doreen Mulder

Week 1:

I explored the possibilities of creating a wristband to connect to MiRo. The decision was made to use the Arduino Nano BLE Sense. This Arduino has bluetooth capabilities that can be used to determine the distance between MiRo and the user.
I made a small program to run on the Arduino Nano that allows connection to a Bluetooth device. When the signal strength gets below a certain threshold, a small motor will vibrate, alerting the user.

Week 2:

After the brainstorm session, I made a state diagram for our system. I looked into how to get the MDK to work.

Week 3:

I spent a lot of hours getting the MDK to work and wrote an install guide for my team members. 

Week 4:

After deciding that using the MDK would be more effort than it was worth, I started creating the wireless wristband to work with MiRo. 

Week 5:

I continued work on the wristband. At this point, the wristband would measure signal strength between itself and an Arduino on the MiRo. I helped Rohan set up our experiment, and wrote additional content on our Test page for this. I also elaborated on the Problem Scenario by adding lecture content to what we already had. 

Week 6:

I invited a hard-of-hearing participant to conduct the pilot testing session with. After the testing session, I held an additional interview with them. I added their feedback into the discussion section on the Test page. It also became clear that the current wristband setup was too sensitive, so I rewrote it to work over WiFi where an observer could send signals to the wristband from a small web-app. 

Week 7:

We conducted our experiments. I took part in receiving our participants and explaining the test setup to them. I wrote the Inclusive Design page.

Week 8:

I helped with the presentations and gave part of the presentation. I finalized writing the Discussion and Conclusion on our Test page. I proofread the XWiki along with group members. 

Project reflection:

I thoroughly enjoyed working on this project and getting familiar with the SCE method. It gave me insights I did not have before and I feel better at understanding what it means to do human-centered design. I also really liked that we could use the actual robots to create a prototype. I feel that the course has an appropriate amount of contact hours.
I feel that a group of 7 people was a bit too much for this course. I enjoyed working with my teammates, but it becomes harder to divide tasks when tasks are dependent on each other.