Re: Retraining robots

WE have not used retraining robots much with children before
This seems a very important change


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t 17:41 +0000 8/3/04, Gordon Simpson wrote:
>Hi All,
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>We ran a session last week that involved kids retraining a robot. The
>session actually went quite well, but highlighted what I think are a
>couple of UI problems with robot retraining:
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>1). Once you have sucked out the input box from a robot's thought bubble
>there is no visual difference between an untrained robot, and one that
>is ready to be retrained.
>2). Kids wanted to add some robot actions to the end of a sequence of
>actions. It was quite common for them to move the mouse (or maybe press
>a key) almost straight away after entering retraining, thereby taking
>over control and stopping the previous actions that they really wanted
>to happen. When retraining it is far to easy to accidentally do this, as
>there is no visual indication that (a) the robot is replaying the
>actions he was previously taught and (b) if you move the mouse (or press
>a key) you will take over control of the training.
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>For problem 1, you could possibly have a greyed out input box left in
>the thought bubble after sucking out the real one (this greyed one
>wouldn't be a real object that could be manipulated). This would show
>what type of box the robot was trained with and distinguish it from an
>untrained one.
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>I think 2 is the more serious problem. One solution would be to use the
>Time Travel metaphor when entering robot retraining. When you enter, the
>robot is playing back what it was trained to do, and in order to take
>over control you need to hit record. Don't know if this can work in the
>same way as the 'real' existing time travel. E.g. what happens if the
>user really wants to time travel while already in 'retraining' replay
>mode? E.g. what happens if the user doesn't have time travel enabled?
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Best wishes


--Celia




 
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