This week we read two texts and had lectures with the authors. The first text: Fernaeus, Y. & Jacobsson, M. (2009). Comics, Robots, Fashion and Programming: outlining the concept of actDresses was how comic signs and clothes could help us communicate with robots in more intuitive ways. Compared with last weeks readings this paper did not seem scientific at all. No numbers, statistics or results to tell the reader if this was a good or bad hypothesis. By reading the paper you ended up with even more questions than you had before but i guess that was the point of it. At the lecture Ylva told us that this paper had been given great response at some conference and was accepted as a research paper.
The second text was about prototypes. I think that it is very interesting and during my bachelor thesis I worked a lot with prototypes. I really think that it is the best way of creating a product. When you first get an idea it is far from what the end result will be like. If you create simple prototypes you the changes will be easy to make and you learn something and refine your product after each iteration.
During the lecture he spoke about other things than the paper. It was a a new perspective on research. Until this point we have learned what science and research is. What Haibo Li talked about was more how you can make money out of research. That is important, because without a great chance of making some money, who want's to found your research?
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