Lindsey Coffee-Johnson
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Weekly Log
Week 1
- Attended orientation
- Went on library tour and learned about research resources
- Met with mentor to discuss project
- Learned about wiki and updated it
- Read paper on related project
- Set goals and milestones for the summer
- Read related literature on the topic of trust as it relates to human-robot interaction
Week 2
- Researched topics on deception and manipulation and how to recognize them
- Started learning about ROS
- Met with advisor to discuss progress so far
- Read about elder abuse by caregivers and methods for detecting it (has the potential to serve as a model for intrusion detection in caregiving robots)
- Attended working lunch to discuss how to give an effective presentation on research
- Completed Section 1 of Responsible Conduct of Research course
Week 3
- Completed Sections 2 and 3 of Responsible Conduct of Research--Finished
- Continued exploring ROS and code from previous project
- Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress
- Attended Responsible Conduct of Research training
- Worked with TurtleBots to get them running
- Read online tutorials for ROS, TurtleBots, and related material
- Researched current models of social robots
Week 4
- Continued troubleshooting TurtleBots
- Setup Catkin workspace with code from previous project on a TurtleBot
- Outlined broad and specific behaviors of a "normally functioning" caretaker robot
- Outlined anomalous robot behavior and definitive signs of intrusion
- Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and issues with TurtleBots
- Started to outline final research report
- Outlined requirements for intrusion detection "questionnaire" given the circumstance of its use
Week 5
- Compiled potential questionnaire questions from existing tools
- Met with Dr. Perouli to discuss progress and further steps on looking into Natural Language Processing (NLP) and network monitoring
- Prepared Midway presentation
- Explored TurtleBot simulators
- Gave 10 minute midway presentation on research and listened to other REU presentations
- Got Gazebo working and simulated a TurtleBot 2 moving
- Read material on networks and network monitoring
- Researched NLP topics and sources relevant to audio monitoring
Week 6
- Explored multi-TurtleBot simulation in Gazebo
- Researched the Content Validity Index in relation to questionnaires
- Looked through some of Drew Williams' publications for relevant elements
- Attended working lunch to learn about LaTex
- Moved final report outline to a LaTex project and continued working on report
- Started assembling bibliography in a bibtex file
