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1 **Week 1:**
2 * Was not in the Netherlands so could not attend the lectures
3 * Read through the slides and caught up with the lectures
4 * Read about the project
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6 **Week 2:**
7 * Met with the group (in person)
8 * Group discussion on problem statement and robot
9 * Worked on the environment
10 * Worked on the use cases
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12 **Week 3**
13 * Worked on personas
14 * Worked on story boards
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16 **Week 4**
17 * Worked on functionalities
18 * Worked on claims
19 * Worked on evaluation
20 * Discussed the prototype design
21 * Got familiar with Interactive Robots platform
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23 **Week 5**
24 * Finished up the specifications page
25 * Implemented feedback given after the presentation
26 * Added how each of the lectures can be used used in our project (Human Factors)
27 * Watched videos regarding Choregraphe to program Pepper
28 * Made a basic flowchart of the dialogue flow
29 * Started programming the robot
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31 **Week 6**
32 * Met with Pepper
33 * Tested the first version of the dialogue flow
34 * Made small changes to adjust the flow
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36 **Week 7**
37 (could not attend the lectures or be present for experiments with participants due to covid)
38 * Work on evaluation results + analyze
39 * Edited the research questions and claims so that they were correlated. This also made it easier to analyze the data collected.
40 * Work on presentation
41 * Read two papers and summarize (relation between people with dementia and music)
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43 **Week 8**
44 * Final presentation
45 * Wrap up report - incorporate comments for the problem scenario.
46 * Read and edit report
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48 === Personal Reflection ===
49 I really enjoyed working with all team members. In the process of working on this project, I met some really great people! However, a group of six people can become a little difficult to work with since the tasks need to be split amongst many people. We met up at least once a week where we mainly came up with different ideas about the project and divided tasks. In the first few weeks we focused on just the wiki. When looking back, we should have also started working with the robot earlier as it got really busy in the last two weeks. Nonetheless, we managed to complete the project and I really enjoyed the entire process.
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51 Through this experience, I have also gained a little more knowledge about dementia. I have always heard about it, but never knew how the persons really felt. An interest in this topic and field made reading those papers a lot more interesting. It was also really fun working with a humanoid robot. It was a little challenging to think of a natural flowing dialogue while also keeping it simple enough so that the robot can understand and reply accordingly. There is still a lot more improvement that can be done in that area, and hopefully can be something to look forward to working on in the future.