MGEP visiting CoLoRs Lab at BOUN

Three photos in a collage: 1. Five people (four men and one woman) standing and smiling into the camera. They are standing in a robotic laboratory in front of a black background and a white board. In the middle there is a robotic arm. From left to right: A man with grey-black short hair and a grey-black beard in a black T-shirt with a retangle in blue with white stripes has his left hand on the robotics arm. Next to him is a man with black short hair and beard in a wine red sweater with a zip. Next to him is a man in a beige sweater and black hair with some strains falling into his front and a beard. Next to him there is a woman in a black pullover and brown shoulder long hair. Next to her standing against the white board is a man in a black sweater jacket with a full black beard and short black hair. Two pictures under the first one: Basically similar, with two persons standing in the lab doing an experiment. One man in a white T-shirt with a belt equipment and VR glasses grabbing an object on the table. In the second image he has no VR glasses, but he is grabbing the robotic arm and making it grab a different object on the table. In the background there is a woman with brown shoulder long hair and in a black sweater writing down something and observing closely the movements of the man. This scene is monitored by a man in a wine red sweater behind two monitors.

News 26. November 2024

From 18th to 22nd November, the two PhD students Nagore Osa Arzuaga and Oscar Escallada Lopez from Mondragon University (MGEP) visited the Cognitive Learning and Robotics (CoLoRs) Lab team at Boğaziçi University (BOUN).

Knowledge exchange between BOUN and MGEP

During the meeting, the PhD students from MGEP brought their expertise in user experience (UX) design and evaluation to conduct UX tests with the augmented reality (AR) system, Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming and Automation (RAMPA) provided by the BOUN CoLoRs team (Emre Ugur, Yigit Yildrim and Fatih Doğangün). Both part of the team led by Dr. Ganix Lasa Erle from MGEP, Nagore is a PhD student working on “Human Factors and Cognitive Robotics: Improving Safety and Technological Acceptance in Industrial Human-Robot Interactions” and Oscar focuses his work on “Evaluating Human Factors that affect Extended Reality UX in industrial training environments” as a PhD student as well.

This system is designed to leverage AR capabilities to collect demonstrations essential for teaching robots new skills.

INVERSE work in progress

The primary objective of the tasks led by MGEP within INVERSE, is to define a user-centred design framework for human-robot collaboration. As part of this effort, user tests are conducted to evaluate participants’ user experience (UX) in various human-robot interaction scenarios. These scenarios include direct physical interaction with robots as well as interaction facilitated through Augmented Reality tools. This experiment aims to gain a deeper understanding of user reactions and behaviours, using insights derived from questionnaires and biometrical data. The findings will help to the refinement of the framework and design guidelines.