July 25, 2019
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…
July 8, 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…
June 14, 2019
Presenting at the Psychology Seminar Series at UW Tacoma
Blog post written by Christina Nelson and Annamaria Choi 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…
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. The Maker Faire was an interactive workshop held on the UW Tacoma campus where community…
May 14, 2019
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? Do teens prefer a stress-related interaction with a virtual social robot…