We started the week by briefing Haiyi on our new dimensions for the experimental design. We are now planning a 2x2 factorial wizard of oz study plus a passive bot group and a control group. Haiyi seemed to like our design, so we decided to run another trial on people in the lab.
On Tuesday we tested out the new structure enforced bot on some lab members along with the pre-study procedures that real participants will have to undergo. The study was going fairly well until the group failed to reach a consensus and was forced to go back to brainstorming or discussing. This was problematic because after having seen what others’ opinions were in the final poll, members of the group were willing to re-vote and compromise to make a decision. However, the decision making structure didn’t accommodate for this, which created a large flaw in our bot design. During the second half of the week we ran another pilot study with some of the other Big Data REU students. We ran them through the control environment (just making a decision amongst themselves) and then with the active enforced structure bot. While observing their conversation in the control condition, we realized that because group decision assisting technology has never existed before, humans are already quite satisfied with how they make decisions together. But at the end of our brief existential crisis, we reassured ourselves that we are doing this study to help contribute to contributing to research in Intelligent agents mediating group decisions. In addition, I was hard at work writing an abstract for our project to submit for the Summer Research Symposium. IRB approval is still pending and bot alterations are being made. With each pilot study, we’re reaching our desired functionality for our bot designs. This weekend I made another trip to the Mall America with the other girls in the DREU program. Then a bigger group of us went picnicking and canoeing at Lake Calhoun. It was tons of fun! The fact that there are so many lakes within the city never ceases to amaze me.
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