Andrejs Karklins

This course felt like a continuation of the Conversational Agents course that I took in Q1. With expanding growth of AI in the modern world I feel like introducing robot assistants into our daily life seems to be the next step. This project introduced me to people with dementia, with whom I never had contact before. I hope that our idea would contribute towards making the life of PwD easier.

During the course, I experienced a new methodology of product development from scratch. Because of my prior knowledge of Flutter, I was able to set up a working prototype that hopefully proves the proposed concept of such a robot assistant. I did like the Quick Start page of the XWiki as it really helped to brainstorm and shape our idea by answering the list of questions. However, I didn't quite enjoy the whole working process with XWiki, as its folder structure does not allow me to look at the project as a whole at once. The one functionality that it is missing is to generate a whole PDF from all of the sections from XWiki.

Besides that, our group faced interesting challenges and solved them together. I have personally, improved my skill in the creation of use cases and building the whole architecture based around them. I feel like another improvement to the course would be additional deadlines in the middle of the course, which would make the working process more organized. In the middle of the course, our team lost understanding of how much has been already done and how much work was already supposed to be done.