On Monday, there was a big deadline for the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work(CSCW) conference, so everyone in the research lab was busy putting the final touches on their papers. Because of all the chaos, Haiyi was not able to join our Monday meeting. However, we conducted our meeting per usual and each briefed the group on what we have accomplished since last week. My group presented the new script design for the active chatbot and Max responded suggested that we test it out to check the flow of our structure. The next day, we tested out the bot design with each other by taking turns acting as the bot and acting as the users. It turned out to be really fun and revealed some details that we needed to change. We determined that we need to be exact in when to intervene the conversation to implement structure into the conversation. For example, we created timed intervals of when we would prompt the users to move on to voting from the discussion phase.
On Wednesday we were finally able to meet with Haiyi. For the bot designs she suggested that we make a script difference for the Personalized/Non-Personalized variables rather than restricting it to the recommendation algorithm. By adding this variable into the dialogue, we will be able to see how user interaction is affected by it. In addition, we have decided to run the study through Amazon Mechanical Turk rather than MovieLens because the process will be much easier and there will be more longevity for future studies. Therefore, my task for the rest of the week is to learn and familiarize myself with the MTurk API and conducting a synchronous study overall. To learn about this I have been using the Amazon Web Services documentation and resources. For the weekend, I explored some spots in Downtown Minneapolis, like the Nicollet Mall (which is under construction for the next Super Bowl), the Central Library, and a very large Target. In addition, a group of us went to the Como Zoo and Conservatory. The entire Como park was peaceful and beautiful. And the Zoo and Conservatory were excellent for the free admission!
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