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.… Read more →
Category: Observation
07.13.12 – Second Demonstration
Today we held a second public demonstration. We had originally intended to demo both the Pleos and the Scribblers, but unfortunately there were few people around to demo to. That said, the Pleo demonstration seemed successful – people were interested in the little dinosaurs and curious about how they worked. For the short time I was there, I observed two… Read more →
Pleo Observations
The first people to stop by our demos were a few groups of children between the ages of five and ten. They ran up to where we were sitting by the bookstore, having seen PLEO, and asked “Is that a real dinosaur?” When we told them that it was a robotic dinosaur, some asked, “What does it do?” Others lost… Read more →
Pleo Interactions – July 13
Date: Friday, July 13 Demo: In the campus center courtyard. My demonstration had the Pleo in its most natural state, and people could touch it and interact with it as much as they wanted, and there were no real “demonstrations” just hands on play Person: Multiple people came up to play including an 8 year old boy and his mom,… Read more →
Scribbler Interaction Observation
Date: 07/10/2012 Person: 14 year old cousin. His impression: He was at first confused when he saw scribbler because he felt that I had built the robot. My cousin had already seen me before working with VEX robotics. When I told him that it came as it is out of the box, he felt that there was nothing special that… Read more →
Scribbler Observations with Angelica
Date: 07/05/2012 Teacher’s Name: Angelica Gunderson Robot: Power Demo: I introduced the Scribbler robot and briefed her about the sensors and actuators that come with the robot including the sensors on the fluke. I also talked to her about Calico and how it applies to the Scribbler and Myro. Unfortunately most of our time was spent… Read more →
Observations, Demo to Roommates
On June 20th, I demoed the Scribbler robot to my two roommates, Jennifer and Helen. Both are female university students with no robotics or programming experience. I believe the robot I was using at the time was Wall-E. Because I had just received the robot, I hadn’t programmed anything complex, but I had the robot draw simple shapes (square, circle,… Read more →
Observations with the Scribbler
So far, only my parents, one of my sisters, and my nephew have gotten to interact with the Scribbler robot, and all of their reactions were very different. Please note that all of their reactions were noted almost immediately after receiving the robot, meaning that I had not programmed any demos for the robot yet. My Parents: Both of my… Read more →
Preliminary Questions, Second Demo
Question: How do people react to the Scribbler robots? What do people with various levels of programming experience want to do with the robots? Hypothesis: We think that people with previous programming experience or a strong interest in robotics will be more likely to participate in the demonstrations, and that attracting people who are not already interested in robotics will… Read more →
Observations, First Demo
Today we ventured onto campus for some interactive heidi montag sex tape online research! We set up a demonstration of the Pleos and Scribblers in front of the USC bookstore in the hopes of attracting the attention of passersby. Fortunately, there was plenty of interest, particularly in the Pleos. People of all ages, but particularly children and young adults, wanted… Read more →