November 11, 2019
Teens Visit the Lab
This past week, we had a rare opportunity to host teens from Garfield’s Girls Who Code Club in our lab. They interacted with our army of robots (EMAR V5, Kuri, Misty, and Nao) and discussed their preferences about robots. They were introduced to EMAR V5, Kuri, Misty, and Nao EMAR V5 – our latest EMAR…
October 23, 2019
Human, but not human, the voice of EMAR
Finding the perfect voice for EMAR is difficult. Last spring, we tested several robotic and human voices with teens and discovered two human-like voices originally stood out as ideal. Both were human voices recorded by Project EMAR students, both of which had a Chinese accent. We added a slight echo to make them less human….
October 10, 2019
Exploring Movement with Amy LaViers
Blog post written by Christina Nelson and Meredith Fife On May 16, Amy LaViers hosted a workshop on the UW Seattle campus to explore greetings and goodbyes with the Project EMAR team. Amy LaViers is a Certified Movement Analyst and roboticist from the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab at the University of Illinois at…
Project EMAR Hellos and Goodbyes for Summer, 2019
Project EMAR involves many students throughout the year and the end of spring quarter is always a bittersweet moment when we have to say goodbye. In addition, several new brilliant students will be joining or continuing to work on the project. Graduates: Four of our core Project EMAR student team graduated from UW this year…
June 14, 2019
Presenting at the Psychology Seminar Series at UW Tacoma
Meredith Fife and Annamaria Choi were invited to present at the Psychology Seminar Series at UW Tacoma. The end of year Psychology Seminar Series features research conducted by undergraduate researchers. This quarter, our team has explored using the methods of user-created personas and storyboarding with teens to help us better understand teen stress and inform the design of EMAR.
