Date: 7/13/12
Person:
Male, Caucasian, 50’s, Disney imagineer
Male, Asian, 50’s, Possibly Disney imagineer
Male, Caucasian, 50’s, Disney imagineer
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: Remote control
What did they say: Did you guys make these? We are imagineers, and we do stuff like this for a living.
What did they do: Issued “Moo, Call, rock, godzilla, and hiccup” commands. However the imagineers seemed most interested in the Pleos skin. They pulled at it and touched it.
Method of interaction: Iphone (Caucasian, Asian). No touch sensors were activated, although the skin was examined.
What did I do: I asked them if they could do anything what they would have it do. They responded “walk.” This was odd because there was a walk demo that they seemed to have ignored. By this point however they were leaving and seemed to have lost interest.
What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): I think they were moderately interested, but did not seem excited. I think this because they went through the interactions with little verbal output, i.e. they didn’t remark that anything was particularly interesting. They did not seem particularly impressed with the Pleo or it’s behavior, but were curious enough in the connection method to go through all the steps of connecting.
Duration: 5 minutes
Date: 7/13/12
Person:
Female, 35, Latina, teacher
Female, 28, Asian, teacher
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: remote control (both), touch (Asain)
What did they say: Oh that’s really cool. How does it work? Our kids would really like this. (In reference to the “poo” behavior): If we had this in our classroom the kids would make it poo all the time.
What did they do: Sent commands “Moo, poo, walk, rock, backwards, Godzilla, etc. all commands.”
Method of interaction: via iphone and touch (Asian) and ipad (Latina)
What did I do: Asked them what they would like to see it do. They stated dance and read a story
What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): Excited. They thought that controlling it via a phone was very cool. This was based on the fact that they said they thought it was very cool.
Duration: 8 minutes
Date: 7/13/12
Person: Male Caucasian 30 Phd student
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: remote control
What did they say: He thought it was interesting, but did not seem too engaged.
What did they do: Issued commands “Walk, backwards, rock, prr”
Method of interaction: Ipad only from one of the teachers earlier. Did not set up himself.
What did I do: What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): Amused, but not too interested. Spent the time to issue a few commands but didn’t ask any questions.
Duration: 2 minutes
Date: 7/13/12
Person:
Male, Caucasian, 30, Unknown occupation
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: remote control
What did they say: He Asked about it, what it was and what we were doing there.
What did they do: No interaction with Pleo
Method of interaction: None
What did I do: Asked him if he wanted to control the robot and he said no. I told him we were there as part of a computer science project watching interactions and asking questions.
What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): Slightly curious based on questions asked, but not excited and had no desire to control or interact with the robot.
Duration: 2 minutes
Date: 7/13/12
Person:
Female, Asian (not very good English), mid twenties
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: remote control
What did they say: She wanted to know what this was
What did they do: asked about only what it was. She didn’t have the right type of phone to control it, and didn’t want to get her laptop out.
Method of interaction: None, no touch
What did I do: Asked her if she wanted to control it via her phone or laptop.
What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): Slightly interested, and slightly frazzled (probably the result of limited English skills).
Duration: 1 minute
Date: 7/13/12
Person:
Male, 30 causasian, occupation unknown
Male, 30 causasian, occupation unknown
Robot: Grandpa
What was the demo: remote control
What did they say: They were interested in what we were doing and why we were set up outside. Then they tried the demos, and noticed that one of them (Godzilla) wasn’t working. They then said “I guess it’s broken.” I restarted the robot and then the demo worked again, and then they said “oh.”
What did they do: They were interested in the robot and what it could do. They did not want to go through the trouble of using their own devices to control the robot, so instead they used my machine to control the robot through the web interface.
Method of interaction: My computer web interface, no touch
What did I do: I told them about Pleo and how we were controlling it.
What you think about their emotional state (happy, angry, scared, and why we think that): Very interested. They were willing to wait while I restarted the robot so they could hear the sounds that Pleo would make.
Duration: 5 minutes