Workworkworkworkwork. In lab all day. We also got to see a few of the graduate students work on a point-light display recording for one of the quadruped robots. I was thrilled to see the setup because I have seen a few recordings in my psychology classes focused on body movements involved in behavior and recognition. We also got to see the autonomous mobile platform in action with a foam head attached, and everyone agreed that it had a lot of personality. That was inspiring, because my research is meant to define the specifics of body language in order to construct specific personalities for the mobile platform robot.
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Wednesday (6/16)
A lot of time spent on blogging and Korean homework before class, then class where we learned how to ask where things and people are (which is going to be very useful as we start traveling further from our relative familiar surroundings in Daejeon) and how to read numbers like addresses and telephone numbers, then out to dinner with Dr. Oh and the rest of his American guests to a Korean style Japanese restaurant with Professor Dong-Soo Kwon of the HRI (Human-Robot Interaction, if you recall) Research Center. Dinner was fantastic, complete with soju, a wide range of raw fish, live octopus tentacles, whole anchovies, sea urchin, and bottom crawlers.
Of course, after dinner came the entertainment; we all walked down the stairs and into the back of the building for more norabang! I love Korea.
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