Assignment 3

Due: Jan 24 Wednesday Jan 29 Monday (extended), 11:59pm | Canvas link (rubric & submission) |  Points: 6

In this assignment you will continue to refine your project ideas, while making progress on the technical design and implementation of your systems.

• Post #4: Once you have agreed on a direction for your team (i.e., you are done with Assignment 2 and had a discussion with the instructor), you will create a sketch and a storyboard that communicates your project idea. Show these to one person from your target user population and try to elicit their reactions. Also try to get their feedback and ideas for other tasks the robot could support them with and how the solution should be designed. Your post should include your prototypes (sketch and storyboard) and any reactions/feedback you got from the user (in the form or of direct quotes or rephrased).

  • If you would like to get feedback on your sketch and/or storyboard before you show them to your user, email them to teaching staff and we'll get back to you within a day.

• Post #5: This week you will start a literature review on the topic of your project. Your goal is to identify all the existing products, academic research, or personal/course projects out there that are similar to or related to your project, or might have implications for your project. The first place to start your search is Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar using different keywords related to your project. Create a Google spreadsheet with the following columns: Paper title, Authors, Abstract, Publication venue, Publication year, Link. For products or projects you can replace the fields with the relevant information you find (e.g., project title instead of paper title, description instead of abstract, etcetera). Embed the spreadsheet in your post (Insert > Sheets), which can simply say that you started a literature review this week. You do not yet need to read the papers; just read the abstract enough to judge relevance and only add papers that are clearly relevant.

  • You might find that papers can be relevant in two ways:

    • They involve a robot system (and possibly an evaluation of the system) that tackles a similar challenge as the one you are working on in your project (possibly with similar motivations).

    • They involve a study with users from your target group, which can further motivate your project and inform design decisions in your project.

  • Try to find at least 10 papers, but you can probably find many more. The instructor will share any papers they think should be on your list. The "related work" sections of those papers are also good places to look for additional papers you might want to include.

• Post #6: As part of your labs next Tuesday, you will develop your first browser-based teleoperation interface to control the Stretch robot. Make a screenshot video of controlling the robot (simulated or real) from your interface and post it along with a description of what the interface is for. We recommend including a (lo-fi) sketch of the interface you envision in the post.

Submit your response on Canvas as a link to the latest post on your team's website.