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Haoran Wang

Last modified by Haoran Wang on 2022/04/05 09:24

Week 1

  1. Research on should we use one robot for one person or one robot for a group of people.
  • Research result: Almost all researches focus on one robot for one person. 
  • Robot for a group of people: functions are very limited. They don't have any complex functions, like speech recognition or scheduler, because these robots have to process the information of a group of people at the same time, which is really hard.
  • One robot for one person: It can adapt itself to the patient for practical use, e.g., assessment for the patient, customization, training, etc. The only disadvantage probably is the cost, but I think since it's a prototype, we don't need to consider it now. So we chose one robot for one person.

2. Group meeting on Tuesday and Sunday to discuss the research results and decide which robot to use.

Week 2

  1. We checked the Interactive Robotics platform and found it is too simple for our project. So we turned to Choreograph, which is also hard to use. 
  2. I was assigned the Calendar and Reminder tasks. It should be easy to do, but the Choreograph platform crashes every time and I do not know exactly how to use it. I read the tutorial and followed the steps, but it just did not work for some unknown reason.

Week 3

This week, we learned about user stories, design patterns, and ontologies. I got a detailed idea of personas, and storyboards, and finally knew what ontology is. We discussed the implementation of reminders and music on Choreographe during the Tuesday lecture and continued to work on use cases and personas.

Week 4

This week I learned about the evaluation in the designing process, including DECIDE and IMPACT frameworks, experiment design, types of data, questionnaires, etc. I got further insight into what evaluation is and how to implement it in the designing process. We discussed our progress during Tuesday's lecture and found our schedule is a little too slow. So we divided the tasks and try to be well-prepared before the presentation next week.
This week I worked on the Test under the Evaluation, including problem statement and research questions, experimental design, tasks, measures, procedure, material, and results. Then Monolo and Pietro can revise it to make it more consistent and reasonable. 

Week 5

On Tuesday, my team members had our first presentation. I'll present in the second presentation.

Week 6

I finished the Inclusive Design and Measuring Instruments and modified the Use Cases and Music Management on XWiki.
We prepared our evaluation and decide to use the gardening activity as our evaluation.

Week 7

We started our evaluation on Monday. Sneha and I did three evaluation sessions on Monday, and five evaluation sessions on Thursday. I finished the Human-Agent Teamwork on XWiki and modified the Test part. I was supposed to do the presentation next Monday. Unfortunately, I tested positive on Friday this week. So, I have to stay at home. Thankfully, my teammate Sneha offered to do the presentation for me, which is really kind. 

Week 8

This week, we mainly focused on the XWiki and the evaluation results. I added partnership in Robotic Partner and modified Design Patterns and Ontology according to the comments. I read relevant literature and finished the first draft of Music and Cognition, Group's Core Theoretical Foundation. 

Personal Reflection

During the course and progress of the project, I learned about the Socio-Cognitive Engineering method and applied it to our project. The SCE method provided a systematic way to guide us through the project. I also gained a deeper understanding of dementia and increased my attention to people with dementia. Other concepts, including persona, design patterns, ontology, etc., were also used and provided insights into our project. 

Moreover, this project was also the first time I had contact with robots, which is really cool. I understand the importance of incremental and iterative design, in which we kept noticing small but important details. The outcomes of the evaluation also provided useful insights into our design choice. Besides, we actually implemented a practical prototype that can be used to help people with dementia. It made me feel nice because I know that I can apply what I have learned into practice and help others.