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November 2, 2018
Greeting & Navigation Team: Ideating with Students at Chief Sealth
Blog post written by Jenna James, Lynn Pham & Soham Hinduja
The Greeting and Navigation Team is spending this quarter looking at how we can create an initial, meaningful interaction between EMAR and teens. We are also interested in creating a holistic experience across the different functions of EMAR.
October 20, 2018
Summer Updates and Kicking Off the Fall Directed Research Group
Blog post written by Christina Nelson
The Project EMAR team is entering year two of research! With a new Directed Research Group taking place this fall, the team is looking forward to a great year of research and developing a social robot to help with teen stress.
July 10, 2018
Sharing our Findings from the Social Robot Design Challenge
Blog post written by Christina Nelson & Emma Rose
Earlier this year we hosted the Social Robot Design Challenge at UW to better understand how teens might design a social robot to address stress. During Spring quarter, we spent time analyzing the resulting designs.
July 3, 2018
Spring Quarter Highlights: Human Robot Interaction 2018, the Today Show, and Virtual Reality Robot Designer
Spring quarter flew by for us so here it is in a nutshell…
The EMAR team appeared on the Today Show on April 13, 2018 in a segment on teen stress. Our project was presented as one of the “unconventional” attempts to reduce teen’s stress. Elin Bjöling, the project lead, was interviewed about the threatening impact of stresses on teenagers and how Project EMAR hopes to help teens manage stress.
April 8, 2018
Teens Showcase Their Amazing Designs at the Social Robot Design Challenge Showcase
To say we were blown away by the prototypes that high schoolers brought to the showcase is an understatement. The showcase was a HUGE success as were the teens’ creative and inspiring ideas. After spending the past two months exploring the human centered design process, high school students from seven schools made their way to UW Seattle to showcase their final prototypes!
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