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May 21, 2019
Sharing Robot Activities at the Tacoma-South Sound Mini Maker Faire
Blog post written by Christina Nelson and Meredith Fife
This quarter, our team was excited to create a series of design activities on Project EMAR to share with members of the public at the first Tacoma-South Sound Mini Maker Faire.
EMAR in Virtual Reality vs. EMAR in Physical Reality
Blog post written by Wendy Xu and Honson Ling
Virtual reality is increasingly accessible, affordable and attractive to teens. Project EMAR has already designed a platform where teens collaborate to design a robot in VR. But what about having a robot interaction in VR?
April 15, 2019
Social Robot Wrangling: Assembling Tacoma’s First Social Robot
Blog post written by Sally Ho
Our team was excited to get our first EMAR V4 on the UWT campus in Winter quarter. As the Social Robot Wrangler, my goal this quarter was to assemble EMAR and improve the instructions that came with it to help teams assemble it in the future.
March 26, 2019
Focus Group Team: Working to Uncover Teacher Opinions about Social Robots
Blog post written by Dakota Gonzalez & Jesse Coward
This quarter, our team planned activities for a focus group with high school teachers to uncover their opinions about having a social robot in their school environment.
March 19, 2019
Sharing our Findings from the Girls Who Code Activities
Blog post written by Christine Tabila and Robear Gillis
Our team shared activities with the Girls Who Code to understand how teens might interact with a social robot meant to help with their stress, as reported in last week’s blog. Girls Who Code is a free after school program where girls meet each week at the RAIN Incubator to code and interact with each other.
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