Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? 

Our team is currently focused on building a survey which will be used to assess workers’ level of comfort when collaborating with robots, cobots, and other advanced technologies. During these times, you can find out team working together to survey the literature, catalogue industrial robots, and analyze data.

What’s your favorite thing about this time of day?

The INTEGRATE program includes trainers and trainees from several different disciplines. My favorite part about working with this team is how each trainee provides a unique approach to solving this problem.

How can you tell if your work is going well?

Thankfully, our group is consistently able to get feedback from faculty members, industry partners, and other trainees. This allows us to share our progress and quickly adapt when necessary.

What tells you it’s not going as expected? What do you do when that happens?

As our current research focuses on gathering an understanding of the fundamental components of comfort, unexpected results will allow us to build a more robust scale.