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The Snowballers: Trends, standards and text walls

Updated  group selfie of the team Hello, this week our team was present in the workshop as a whole and contributed equally in making the trend map. This Monday we conducted a meeting at TUT to work on some of the matters related to this week' assignments. As a result - we came up with some text walls and thoughts about trends, standards and other related topic.  Team Homework # 1 Pavel Chistov was responsible for finalising the trend map. What is on our trend map and why?  Presented mindmap our team came up with has a specified structure which is based on a interconnected fields of the technology that has a potential for the future. AI development (mainly in terms of learning and actual robotic vision)  Social robots (that utilizes some of the principles of current psychology achievements and theories)  Education (which partly contains other areas’ items to support learning process)  Exoskeletons (presumably for medical care and ...

The Snowballers: Beginning of the path

Hello! :) As for our first post here, it is time for some introduction! Our group is formed by three people: Pavel Chistov, Ilaria Failla and Aparajita Chowdhury. Pavel and Aparajita are both from UX/HTI unit, while Ilaria's beckground is Telecommunication Engineering. After some short (and undoubtedly creative) thought, we decided to call our group the "Snowballers". Unfortunately, there were only two of us (Pavel and Ilaria) that participated in the first exercize session due to our third member, Aparajita, wasn't able to attend it. But we are planning to upload a second picture all together this week! The ultimate goal of our group is to mix our different backgrounds in order to achieve a result in a form of a prototype that can be analysed from different points of view. In our team project we will strive to create something new that values the time investment of potential users (and ours) and include a great level of detail. At this point, our...