Session 1: design tools

This is the result of session 1 in my course on Social Robot Design (2025/2026). This is done with: Liz van Ginderen (s27349745) Anna Hornman (s3056600) Oyindrila Sen Gupta (s3697762) Sarah Mans (s2306379) 2. Invent a case: How can I check your well-being? We had to invent a case related to how some robot can check your well-being. Figure 2: Students interacting with the MiRo robot, showing where the scenario would be used. ...

April 30, 2026 · 7 min · 1397 words · Me

Session 2: story building

This is the result of session 2 in my course on Social Robot Design (2025/2026). Session 2 is all about storybuilding. The goal here is to find a specific story building tool (like storytelling, scripts, storyboard, improv theatre) and go through that process to figure out more about your particular scenario. Let’s consider a scenario for now, like a study session. This was done with: Liz van Ginderen (s27349745) Anna Hornman (s3056600) Oyindrila Sen Gupta (s3697762) Sarah Mans (s2306379) 1. Research Tools for Scenario-Based Design In this section we had to research tools for scenario-based design. We brainstormed on what tool we could use, and drafted our own tool; A The office style documentary. ...

April 30, 2026 · 7 min · 1443 words · Me

Session 3: expression with robot embodiments

This is the result of session 3 in my course on Social Robot Design (2025/2026). The content of this session was mainly about robot expressivity. We got to play around with an SO-101 robot from huggingface where we utilized a program called TouchDesigner to manage the expressions. It is an intuitive software with drag and drop UI, a picture is shown below. This was done with: Liz van Ginderen (s27349745) Anna Hornman (s3056600) Oyindrila Sen Gupta (s3697762) Sarah Mans (s2306379) Touchdesigner Figure 1: an illustrative view of Touchdesigner ...

April 30, 2026 · 6 min · 1105 words · Me