杜Build-A-Bot

The increasing integration of robots into our daily lives makes it crucial to study human-robot interactions. The project I worked on during the summer, in which I am still actively participating, aims to gain insight into how robots can be designed to better meet human needs 和 preferences by using a variety of research methods, 包括用户研究, 调查, 观察性研究. 此外, we aim to underst和 the complex 和 nuanced perceptions of robots that are influenced by the physical design of a robot 和 its impact on the quality of human-robot interactions. 整个夏天, I worked on debugging 和 adding features to our online platform that will enable us to collect data on human perception of robots through gamification of the robot building process. 另外, I spent time learning 3D modeling 和 printing techniques with the aim of printing physical robot parts from our model library to allow children who are not technologically literate to participate in our study. 最后, I contributed to a research paper that we published 和 two other papers that are in the process of being reviewed. 从夏天到现在, our platform has gone through major improvements as a result of our continuous research 和 user testing. We have improved our platform to be more accessible by applying the concept of universal usability 和 reducing computational costs on the user's end. 前进, I will be working to further improve the usability of our platform by performing user testing 和 implementing various data analysis schemes. I will also be working with the psychology department to perform a study on the user's mental activation for different traits of a robot.