Essential Question: What is our perception of robots and how did they come about?
Mastery Objectives:
SWBAT identify their perceptions and other people's perceptions of robots.
SWBAT identify traits about robots that make people feel more comfortable.
Do Now: What do Robots look like?
Discussion: Play the clip from the movie, Big Hero Six where they are introduced to Baymax and discuss why Baymax looks and acts the way he does.
Do Now: Play this game to see how perceptions of robots matter: https://robots.ieee.org/play/
Discussion: Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWJx9FE2ODU
Answer the question: What do you need to consider when designing a robot?
Activity: Design a user-friendly robot for a job of your choice. Select 3-5 characteristics that would make it more user-friendly. Draw your robot and write a paragraph describing your robot. You can create this in google docs using google art or you can draw it on paper and take a picture of it.