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To be able to effectively use the first practical session at the start of the course, you should come prepared and already have installed the Social Interaction Cloud infrastructure. Before handling the robot in the lab, make sure you also have read and view the videos in the Do’s and don’ts of working with the NAO robot section.
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The first week your group should think of an interaction problem your group wants to focus on. You can also think about a motivating case/start digging into the literature and get familiar with the academic literature in the field. Also, you can think of some ways to evaluate your interaction problem.
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what they have worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment (to be announced during lectures)!
Week 45 (Course week 2)
Robot software part:
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The description for this week is short but during this week much of the work that you will build on in later weeks needs to be done. First and foremost, you should pick your interaction problem and an associated key measure. Y ou You should also check the literature and see how this problem has been tackled by other researchers (you should, at the end when you submit your paper, cite at least 5 scientific papers). Please submit your description of your idea and the interaction problem on Canvas!
Deadlines:
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what they have worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Pick your interaction problem and an associated preliminary key measure. See the assignment on Canvas! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Week 46 (Course week 3)
Robot software part:
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Also note that you need to think about ethical approval for your study. In our case, we do not need to go through the full process but please briefly reflect on ethical issues your participants might face when taking part in your study and perform an ethical self-check (see the template for more details).
Make sure you update other design document sections to keep them up to date with your latest ideas and the changes that are implied by the design decisions you have made this week. Remember to continuously update your design document as during the project you will iteratively improve your design.
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In addition to the UU students visiting the practical sessions of the VU, you will also peer-review the ideas of other groups. On this way, you can give each other valuable feedback!
Upload the deck of slides. Check the course schedule for day and time!
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what they have worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Week 47 (Course week 4)
The goal of this week is to get inspired by both the UU students and your peers! Make sure to make notes on the feedback you get!
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This week you should also have coded your first robot prototype. Therefore it is a good time to start working on the Interaction design section and the approach overview section. Also, you can start working on the subsections of describing each component used in the interaction chosen.
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what he/she has worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Week 48 (Course week 5)
Robot software part:
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Reflect on and consider whether, and, if so, how you can incorporate ideas you get from the moodboard. You are free to use the moodboards in the way you see fit, based on your focus and other design decisions. Whatever you do, you should at least give the moodboard some thought and consideration and document the process on how you reflected on the moodboard from the UU theatre students in the design document. Don’t forget to update other (sub)sections in your Interaction design section too.
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what he/she has worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Week 49 (Course week 6)
Robot software part:
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Tip: Ask your TA to review the evaluation procedure and perform the evaluation during your practical session.
At the end of this week, upload the experiment procedure and all associated materials. Please check the deadline in the course schedule! Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what he/she has worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Also, the UU students will come and visit the VU lab for a second time. The schedule is uploaded on the course schedule.
Week 50 (Course week 7)
During this week, your group will run the experiments. The experiment schedule will be shared with you ahead of time. Make sure you execute the evaluation procedure exactly as it dictates. Also, carefully collect the data for each subject as explained in the evaluation protocol. Document any noticeable events that happened (e.g., issues with getting the code to run on the robot, issues with the robot interaction, etc.). Also, combine all the data that has been collected and start to analyze the data (remember, you need to submit your final report already next week!).
In one of your practical sessions, you will also Create video material of your robot in action. This video functions only as a backup in case on the day of your presentation something will go wrong (of course, we do not hope so!). Please upload your final video in the Google Drive folder of your group.
At the end of the week, upload your video of the NAO robot in action. Please check the deadline in the course schedule!
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
Design document:
During this week, you will also receive feedback from the UU students as they are going to submit their robot review. You can have a look at this and can reflect upon this and see what might aspects could be discussed in your design document.
Further improve your design document and make sure it accurately reflects your implementation (perhaps you included design features in an earlier version of your document that you were not able to realize). Also, finalize the Implementation section documenting your robot software. Also start to incorporate the experimental data to the report. Add the findings of your robot to the design document and discuss these. Add a Summary/Conclusion section in which you summarize your design objective of your project and present the main highlights (results) and lessons learnt.
Update your work logbook in which every student writes down on what he/she has worked on during the week. This is really important, as we regularly check this to see your progress and your contributions! Check the course schedule for day and time!
Final poster:
Prepare a poster (A0 format!) that will support your final presentation (see the info below). It should include:
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Upload the final poster on Canvas!
Please check the deadline in the course schedule! We will provide you with a template that will be uploaded to the Google Drive folders.
Check the course schedule for a potential individual micro-assignment!
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Finally, each group member should write a half-a-page individual project summary and add this to the Individual contribution summary of the appendix. Please make sure to include your experiment material in the Appendix as well!
Submit your final design document as a pdf file on Canvas!
Important note: Be aware of the final presentation on Tuesday, 20.12. Please check the schedule of the group!
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