cse599k1 | human-robot interaction | spring 2014
Milestone 1: Research question [DUE: 04/11, Friday, 5pm]
Write a one paragraph "abstract" of the project that you would like to work on this quarter. Make sure your project addresses a novel problem. Try to address: What is the goal of your project? What question do you hope to answer? How will you try to answer it (what robot platforms, interaction scenarios, research methods, etc.)?
Deliverables
Send your abstract to Maya (mcakmak@cs) as email content, txt, or pdf. If you are working as a team make sure to indicate your teammates and cc everyone in your email.
Milestone 2: User study design [DUE: 05/02, Friday, 5pm]
It is time to get more serious about your projects :-) This means we will need to narrow down the scope of your projects to a single human-robot interaction user study. You should already be working on building technical components of your project, but this deliverable will help you nail down the details of what needs to be implemented. To that end, please provide clear answers to the following questions.
1) Which robot platform and peripherals are you using? What capabilities of the platform will be used for your study?
2) Will you do an observational study (one condition) or a comparative study (multiple conditions)? Why? (If comparative) How will the conditions differ? What are the independent variables being manipulated? Is it a within- or between- participant study?
3) How will the interaction unroll (you could provide a sample interaction trace)? Where will you conduct the study? How will you instruct the participants? Will you have familiarization tasks? What tasks will the participants perform? What props (tables, chairs, objects, obstacles, etc.) do you need for performing the task? Will you use actors? What exactly will the actors do? What part of the robot's capabilities will be autonomous versus Wizard-of-Oz? Will you have a pre, post, or per-task questionnaire?
4) What will you measure? How will you measure them? What will you ask in your questionnaire? What are your dependent variables?
5) What are your hypotheses? What do you expect to get out of the study?
Deliverables
A write-up that addresses all the questions above. Send a single pdf to Maya. Visuals are encouraged.
Milestone 3: Technical implementation and user study demo [Demo 05/08--05/16]
Next you will need to get everything working for the study that you planned in Milestone 2. I will be your first pilot participant. Here are your TODOs:
Complete your implementation and test extensively.
Reserve a time slot for your pilot user study with Maya (please indicate location when you reserve).
Gather all the props you need for your user study, setup the user study environment.
Based on Milestone 2, create a user study script (instructions to participants & checklist for yourself). Here are some sample scripts: sample-1, sample-2. Other user study preparation materials are available here.
Pilot the user study (including with Maya) and update your implementation, script or environment based on any glitches that happen or feedback you get.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR PR2 USERS The robot will start to get very busy! Please use the PR2 Calendar to reserve time on the robot for debugging and user studies. If you are not on the calendar yet, ask Maya to add you. Please do not block out large chunks of time; try to go with 2 hour blocks at a time for debugging and 1 hour blocks for user studies. If you are new to the PR2 please watch the safety video.Â
Deliverables
Demo to Maya (as if you were running the user study) on the scheduled time slot
Open-source code: If you have no restrictions, make your code public and send a link to Maya
User study script (email a pdf of the final version to Maya by 05/16 Friday, 5pm)
Milestone 4: User study analysis [DUE: 06/09, Monday, 5pm]
Provide descriptive and comparative statistics for the data you collected in your user study. Qualitatively discuss what these mean.
Deliverables
For this milestone you can submit your slide deck (Milestone 5) or you can create a separate document (slides or word-style). I would like to see clearly annotated and captioned graphs that summarize your findings and (if applicable) an analysis of the statistical significance of your findings. In addition, I would like to see your interpretation of the results (what is the observed phenomena? were your hypotheses supported? if not, why?)
Milestone 5: Presentation [06/11, Wednesday, 1-3pm, CSE 403]
Share with the community
Deliverables
15 minute presentation
Milestone 6: Write-up (conference-style paper) [DUE: 06/12, Thursday, 5pm]
Dump everything into one document in a nice way
Deliverables
6 to 8 page conference-style write-up
Milestone 7: Video [finals week]
Make it last forever
Deliverables
Video