Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots

This project is my Master thesis project. In this project I started by doing literature research to learn more background knowledge of gender studies, anthropomorphic of robots, gender attribution/design to robots, and learned how to conduct quantitative research by focus groups. I cooperated with the LGBTQ+ community at TU/e to include diverse gender identities in this project.

Three focus groups with people of different gender identities were conducted online and each of them lasted at least 60 minutes, the longest one lasted for about 90 minutes. These online discussions provided me with 77 pages of transcriptions (after transcribing, correcting, and formatting). With this huge amount of data, I used thematic analysis to explore the insights and present the results in a well-organized way.

Currently, my supervisor plans to write a paper on my thesis and I will be one of the authors as well. I would take this as a positive recognition of the results obtained from this project.

In this Project, I...

• Cooperated with the LGBTQ+ community

• Conducted focus groups

• Succeeded in capturing every piece of information in great detail

• Produced informative and thorough descriptions of the data in Excel

• Visualized the main results with readable and concise presentations (e.g., boards and mind maps) in Miro

• Presented the project clearly and concisely with the key information selected from the detailed thesis

• Tools: Excel, Miro, Mentimeter, Limesurvey, PowerPoint / Keynote