| Week1 (from 5/24 to 5/30) | Monday |
Got USF ID card, completed paper work, set up computing account in the morning. In the afternoon, got to know the lab, received a laptop and a desk top to work for the project. Started read Cynthia Breazeal's papers which were printed out before the trip. |
| Tuesday |
Continued reading, installed Linux on the laptop, checked out the library. Got lost for a while. Wow, the campus too large, especially when I had to wark! |
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| Wednesday |
Attended weekly meeting with Robin and her other graduate students. Had lunch and group reading. Went to "Q-Zar" to play laser guns (it was a fun game!) and other games in the everning. |
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| Thursday |
Continued reading, downloaded and install Netbeans in the laptop, went to the library to get some Java and Linux books. Checked out the Book store, got some post cards. |
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| Friday |
Still Reading.
Left early in the afternoon to go to Orlando to get the car borrowed from
my relatives there.
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| Saturday |
Got back Tampa from Orlando at noon. Yeah! I have a car now!! |
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| Sunday |
Stayed all day home even though I just got the car. |
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| Week2 (from 6/1 to 6/7) | Monday |
Holiday. Checked out some Vietnamese food store and restaurants. |
| Tuesday | Attended a training on the use and maintenance of the robots with a Prof. from University of New Orland and some other USF grad students. Feel more comfortable with the robots now. | |
| Wednesday | Weekly meeting, lunch and group reading (nice activity) | |
| Thursday | Prepared and organized all the literature search since last week. | |
| Friday | Met Robin to go over the literature search. | |
| Saturday | Eat out, got some more food. | |
| Sunday | Went to Florida Aquarium and visited University of Tampa. | |
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| Week3 (from 6/8 to 6/14) | Monday |
Continued literature search and reading. |
| Tuesday | Met with Robin to go over the search and prepare power point slides for the presentation in the next day. | |
| Wednesday | Weekly meeting, presented about the project and my progress. The presentation was successful thank to Robin's big help with the slides. Got many good feedback from other grad students on the possible emotional behaviors of the robot. | |
| Thursday | Reading and find other relevant papers. | |
| Friday | Research on nurse-patient relationship in an emergency case. Processed paper work to have the permission to check books out at the Health Science Library (interlibrary). | |
| Saturday | Went to Orlando | |
| Sunday | Checked out Vietnamese food stores in Orlando | |
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| Week4 (from 6/15 to 6/21) | Monday |
Worked on annotation |
| Tuesday | Finished annotation | |
| Wednesday | Met with Bill from Theatre department | |
| Thursday | Continued working with Bill | |
| Friday | Studied Inuktun Control Packet code | |
| Saturday | Continued and finished the first version of the website | |
| Sunday | Got fun ticket to Busch Garden and checked it out for the first time. | |
| Week5 (from 6/22 to 6/28) | Monday | Studied how to use NetBeans to create GUI |
| Tuesday | Continued studying NetBeans | |
| Wednesday | Weekly meeting and reading group | |
| Thursday | Complete the GUI for the snakebot | |
| Friday | Got new camera for the snakebot | |
| Saturday | Came to the lab for reading | |
| Sunday | Started creating this website | |
| Week6 (from 6/29 to 7/4) | Monday | Got the controller board device for the robot |
| Tuesday |
Met Robin to go over the literature review.
Practiced with the software to control the robot via the controller board |
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| Wednesday | No meeting. Set up Java communication API | |
| Thursday | Got Java communication API installed, NetBeans still had some problems. | |
| Friday | Got control of the robot, working on Yes / No expression | |
| Saturday | Came to the lab to continue working with the coding | |
| Sunday | Went to Daytona beach with my relatives in Orlando | |
| Week7 (from 7/5 to 7/11) | Monday |
Yeah! Holiday again! July 4th. Went to watch fireworks at Citywalk, Orlando |
| Tuesday | Finished literature review on robots and theatre. Started the GUI | |
| Wednesday | Weekly meeting, listened to Matt's presentation about Java programming. Reading group meeting at lunch time. | |
| Thursday | Interface group meeting with Robin and Matt to go over each person responsibility and progress. | |
| Friday | Successfully express yes / no with the two main movements of the robot: rotate and bend, but the control was still at command line. | |
| Saturday | Well, Reading at home | |
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| Week8 (from 7/12 to 7/18) | Monday |
Implemented the behaviors as separate functions. |
| Tuesday | Started hook up the GUI and behavior functions. | |
| Wednesday | No meeting. Completed the implementation of the GUI. Met with Bill and Susan, the writer of the article "I, puppet" | |
| Thursday | Prepared the robot for WB38's interview with Robin at the lab. | |
| Friday | Cleaned up the codes. Wow! This was a very productive week. All the emotions were generally implemented. | |
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| Sunday | Got back Busch Garden | |
| Week9 (from 7/19 to 7/25) | Monday |
Well, reading again this week on the previous robotics work that made use of puppet or theatre art. |
| Tuesday | Read "Affective Computing" by Rosalind W. Picard | |
| Wednesday | No meeting. Worked on the program manual. | |
| Thursday | Completed the summary of the project, worked on intensity graphs. | |
| Friday | Annotated papers on theatre and robotics | |
| Saturday | Went to Orlando | |
| Sunday | Robin brought me and Sam to canoeing in the morning then we had to work in the afternoon, since Robin traveled in the week after this week. | |
| Week10 (from 7/26 to 7/31) | Monday |
This was a very busy week. I had to finished up every thing: documentation the codes, manual, bibliography, move the GUI controller from the desktop to the laptop |
| Tuesday | Input the bibliography to EndNote | |
| Wednesday | Writing | |
| Thursday | Still writing | |
| Friday | Some more writing, cleaning, finished every thing by about 2pm | |
| Saturday | My trip back New Jersey | |
| Sunday | Happy to be home!! |