Andrei Stefan

Week 1

Attended the lecture on Monday and learned about concepts of Socio-Cognitive Engineering. Found a team to work on the project with and met together on Tuesday, when we created accounts for the XWiki and brainstormed some general ideas of what the robot needs to do, which robot would be most suitable for these tasks, and started writing some rough ideas of use cases together. We also created accounts on the Interactive Robotics platform, since we thought of working with Nao.
Individually, I studied the lecture slides again in detail and read this week's papers, in order to start writing the Human Factors and the Robotic Partner sections.

Week 2

Attended the lecture on Monday and learned about, music and cognition. It was interesting to see how big the differences regarding memory loss are between "regular" elders and people with dementia. We collectivaly started working on the Foundations tab of the Wiki, by spiltting into groups of two people. Xinqi and I worked on the Human Factors section. As I had already started writing the Robotic Partners part, sge suggested that I keep working on it, while she focused on wirting the Music and Cognition section.

Week 3

Missed the lecture on Monday, due to a meeting for a different course. I managed to catch up during the Tuesday lab, when we started working on the Specification tab of the Wiki. This week, my partners were Xinqi and Lang and we worked on the Use cases and the Claims sections. We spent most of the lab brainstorming which use cases would fit well for our choice of robotic partner and for the types of interactions between the patient and the robot that we envisioned (we decided to remove the tablet and only use the NAO robot). After a bit of struggle figuring out how the patient would communicate with NAO without a tablet for text input, Rembrandt found out that the robot can use speech recognition and thus hold conversations, which is the means of communication that we plan on using.