Progress is moving more rapidly for the user study. A team of 4 of us (3 undergraduates, 1 PhD student) are working on this project. We’ve been holding meetings all week to discuss the experimental design and to accomplish our main goal of creating a script for the Wizard of Oz experiment. So, for our first meeting, we discussed which variables we wanted to study. We had a wide selection from last week’s MovieLens group meeting. But we were able to narrow it down to assertiveness of the bot and information available to the bot. After deciding on the variables, we then discussed how we wanted to conduct our experiment.
We decided to conduct an offline study with a sample of multiple small groups of friends (3-5 people). We felt that this would most accurately represent the way that the MovieLens bot will be used. Our alternative options were to conduct the experiment through Amazon Turk and to vary the group sizes of small versus large. However, using Amazon Turk for multiple samples being tested at the same time is quite complicated. As for the variance of group size, we decided that this could potentially be a confounding variable. In addition, it would require us to recruit a larger sample, which is difficult under our limited time. Later, we started to work on the script for the chatbot. We first brainstormed types of interactions that would occur between the bot and the user. Here is an example of what we brainstormed below.
I’m quite proud of what we have accomplished for this week. We met our goal and are heading in the right direction. In addition to the experimental design, I’ve been reading more research literature and continuing the Data Science Bootcamp. For the weekend we had lots of activities! We went to the Science Museum on Friday, celebrated a birthday on Saturday, celebrated another birthday on Sunday and went to the Food Truck Festival in Uptown.
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AuthorHi! My name is Mary Solomon and I'm from Northwest Ohio. I'm a rising Junior studying Data Science with a music minor at Bowling Green State University. I plan to graduate in May 2019.. Archives
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