Prototyping Design

The group met today to finalize the prototype for our teaching assistant. From analyzing our persona's and scenarios, we formulated our design for the Teaching Assistant: -

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We primarily focused our efforts on 7 key areas, such as Emotions, Height, Movement, Sensors, Speed, Looks/Appearance and Network: -

In terms of Sensors, we analyzed different areas such as vision, touch and hearing. : -

Emotions: -

Movement: -

Network, the Teaching Assistant will have an in-built wireless fidelity card which allows the robot to access local educational network and emergency services: -

As already been stated the teaching assistant will adopt a female look.

Speed - It was important to consider the relative speed the robot will have compared to children. It should be possible that the Robot matches the same motorized speed as that of the walking speed of a child.: -

Other - In this section we detailed any extra functionality of the Teaching Assistant: -

In terms of the Teaching Assistant being waterproof, the robot will have a waterproof fabric laminated onto its 'skin', thereby reducing the risk water may have on the robot.

Furthermore, from this prototyping session, we will be able to draw conceptual designs of the robot.

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Creative Design - Final

This is our creative design. After putting our initial requirements together, derived from the personas, we came up with Miss Dawson.

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Creative Design - Drawing / Mock Up

Before beginning the prototype, we have created a mock-up of the design of our humanoid robot in the creative design stage: -

Female Humanoid Appearance: -

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