PAST

Prior Activities

Before taking part in this study there wasn’t much I did related to design as a whole. Most of my experience with design comes from my previous study on Psychology and Technology, where I learned some basic tools. Firstly was programming in Python, where we dealt with the more creative application of it. One project I took part in was developing a code that would allow the robot to traverse through a randomly generated world, without crashing. Secondly was experiment design, it being a psychology course many of the tasks were about conducting your own experiment based on some hypothesis. This taught me the basics of how to conduct an interview, and run on a tight schedule. Finally, I was also part of a course named Health Information Systems, where we had to make the bare bones of a website which is able to keep the patients' privacy. While none of these projects, I would say, directly relate to the design process, they all have techniques which I did eventually use in my current study. 

Python program where the robot can navigate between the rooms