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When assigning roles for the group members the others proposed me as team leader. I think this fits me well and I happily accepted the role.

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When deciding on the direction of our research we landed quite soon on a sort of guidance robot for PwD to go outside. We initially thought it would be nice for the robot to manage the safety of the route, including traffic monitoring, however we got the comment that this might be too futuristic. Hence we changed it to a motivator to have PwD go for a walk in the garden and be a social companion and route guide during.

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I like the aspect of having to closely think about your user group and the iterative process of designing for your users.

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(8/3) I think we have a solid idea of what we want to do. Now we have to get familiar with the robot interface and design the interaction and system.

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(14/3) Read up on goal vs emotion in XAI. It seems like what we are doing (researching effect on goal vs emotion based XAI for PwD) has not been done before, so it is cool to be researching something new. The others in the team also got working with the Pepper robot today, really cool!

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(26/3) This week we got our prototype working. We initially started in portal.robotsindeklas. However, the robot wouldn't walk through this interface and the program wouldn't run often. We then tried Choregraphe, which gave quite some errors on speech recognition. This caused the others in my group to spend quite some time to fix this. Eventually I fixed it after some googling and having to manually change the scripts of the blocks in Choregraphe. A bit finicky but I'm happy it works now. Next week onto doing our pilot evaluation and then the actual evaluation.

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I understand the point of working in Xwiki. However, we all don't seem to like the format. I get that doing everything in Xwiki shows the progress of the project better then in a report, but I think re-evaluating the 'report' of this course would be beneficial.

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Furthermore, I think we are a solid group and put in good effort into the project. I, as group leader, spend some time here and there to distribute some tasks and make sure things are done in time. However, everyone does a lot on their own initiative as well, which is great. Everyone is willing to spend the time to make a great final result.

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Up until now I have really enjoyed the course, and already talked to Frank about maybe doing my master thesis on a subject related to assistive systems.

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The evaluations went okay. The robot is quite sensitive when someone is standing close to it. Then it doesn't move like it's told to. Also, at least with Choregraphe, it takes like a full second before it's speech recognition engine kicks in so answering it too fast makes it not hear you. This caused some frustration and negatively impacted our experiments. Also it's really hard for people to really get into the persona so they didn't act like Bob would. Also some did not seem motivated at all to do our evaluation. A bit frustrating as we know that that impacts our final conclusion. But we still managed. Also, if there would be a general evaluation day or something organized by the course staff itself, it would be easier to get participants and plan the sessions.

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It's a shame that you don't have that much time to fully work out the prototype and perform proper evaluations. But I think in the timeframe that we have we did learn everything there was to it and I do understand how I //would// do a proper evaluation. So I think the length of the course is fine as it is.

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Now, at the end of the course, I still think this is the most enjoyable course I've had doing this MSc and will definitely think about doing my thesis somewhere in this direction. However, I would personally enjoy it more if I could work on some sort of product design instead of programming an existing robot platform. But I'll see what the possibilities are.

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