Mathieu Jung-Muller

French engineering student doing the CS Masters in TUD for a double degree.
I enjoy writing code and programming for something else than computer science itself (biology, social sciences, teaching, etc). For this reason, I am really motivated by this course as it provides the opportunity to create a prototype of a robot agent that would have a real positive impact on people and society.

Week 1:
For this week, we had to decide in which direction we wanted to go. For this reason, we split research to do among the six of us.
My part was focused on how old people interact with technology, and how to make it the most adapted for the elderly.
We met on Sunday to put all our research together and decide the specifics for our project.

Week 2:
I was tasked this week with "IT tasks".
I had to check Interactive Robotics first, to see whether it would be adapted for our needs.
It turned out this platform seemed too simple for what we wanted to do, and I thus told the team that we should move to Choregraphe instead, to be able to implement our own Python blocks as well as customize those that already exist whenever we need it.
I watched tutorials and built some dummy behaviours to get started on Choregraphe.
I also started to try and understand how to do the activity part for our project, with little success however.

Week 3:
I read Wikis from other groups, and realized we were a bit late compared to them, so I updated most of our wiki pages.
I continued on the activity behaviour on Choregraphe and discussed it with Manolo, we made some progress on it.
I wrote an activity behaviour on Choregraphe, that works on the virtual robot. I also made one with speech recognition, so that we can test it the week later when we book a real robot. I also wrote the reminder behaviour.

Week 4: