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April 2014 [.Pdf] SCRABBLE Snob Board Game Offers Insight into Robot-Human Interactions n Byron Spice Victor plays a mean game of SCRABBLE. The trash-talking Carnegie Mellon robot is showing how machines and humans interact through playing a classic board game. You can call him a gamebot, but don’t use it during game play because the word is not in the official SCRABBLE dictionary. Victor is obsessed with SCRAB- BLE. Seated in a corner of a student lounge on the third floor of the Gates Center, Victor plays anyone who pulls up a stool. He’s ready with a taunt — “Is that all you’ve got?” — as well as a brag — “This one is going to be good.” And he has plenty of excuses — “Dude, I let you win.” His edgy personality was devel- oped by an interdisciplinary group of researchers led by Reid Simmons, PHOTO BY JASON TOGYER research professor in CMU’s Robotics V ICTOR AND R ESEARCH P ROFESSOR R EID S IMMONS P ONDER A SCRA BBL E MO V E . Institute. The project is investigating questions such as whether changes in as robotics, computer science, drama, his head in concentration and look a Institute, and numerous undergraduate mood or emotions affect the desire to design and entertainment technology. player in the eyes when critiquing a and graduate students. interact with robots and how personal- Victor moves his tiles electroni- move. A light over his heart can change With Victor, Simmons and fellow ization, such as the robot remembering cally on a table-size touchscreen, but color and pulsate at different speeds researchers hope to better understand a person’s play from previous games, has a torso and mobile head on which a depending on his mood. Eventually, the what it takes to get people to not only might affect the willingness to interact video screen displays his animated face, researchers will enable him to recognize engage with a robot, but to enjoy over time. designed by Anne Mundell, associate previous players and to calibrate his play doing it. The research team includes col- professor of scene design. to the level of his opponents. “We believe that for autonomous laborators from such varied disciplines During a game, the robot will bow Victor has a voice to address his robots to be accepted, they will have opponents, and people converse through to conform to the social conventions keyboards. of people, rather than the other way P LAY T IMES W AN T T O MAT CH WI T S WI T H V IC T OR ? 1-3 P . M . M ONDAYS , W EDNESDAYS AND T HURSDAYS ; AND 3-5 P . M . T UESDAYS . Michael Chemers, now an associate around,” Simmons said. professor of theater arts at the University Though people can’t see Victor’s of California, Santa Cruz, designed the letter tiles, they can see each other’s character — the precocious son of a pair tiles on the touchscreen. One conse- of Detroit industrial robots attending quence is that people tend to gang up CMU on a SCRABBLE scholarship — when playing against Victor, Simmons and wrote much of his dialogue. He said. also maintains Victor’s Facebook page, “They don’t care if they lose to www.facebook.com/victor.gamebot. each other, but they don’t want to lose Other contributors include Maxim to a machine,” he said. Makatchev, a post-doctoral fellow in This research was supported in robotics, Greg Armstrong, senior part by a grant from the Qatari National V ICTOR AND R ESEARCH P ROFESSOR R EID S IMMONS P ONDER A SCRA BBL E MO V E . research technician in the Robotics Research Fund. University Renews Pledge To Aid Qatar’s Future C ONTINUED FROM P AGE THREE and cultures, bringing internationally es- Nasser, chairperson of Qatar Founda- level, they come out on top. Thanks to ONLINE: WATCH THE tablished teaching and research institutions tion, our partnership with Carnegie Mel- Carnegie Mellon, Qatar now boasts 10-YEAR CELEBRATION to our front door,” said Engineer Saad Al lon Qatar has yielded great results and four Google Anita Borg scholars. This Muhannadi, president of Qatar has grown from strength to strength.” AT Http://CMU.LI/VDGDH is just one example of our success,” Foundation. Education City partners also in- Kamlet said. “As the foundations for the clude Virginia Commonwealth Uni- The partnership between Qatar vision and mission of QF. Carnegie Mellon facility were being laid in versity, Weill Cornell Medical College, Foundation and Carnegie Mellon Qatar “The dream of Qatar Foundation Qatar more than a decade ago, we turned Texas A&M University, Georgetown continues to thrive. The university’s was to build a center of academic and re- this dream into a reality, brick by brick. University School of Foreign Service, goals as a global higher education and search excellence for the country and the Through hard work, dedication and the Northwestern University, HEC Paris research institution align closely with the world, to build bridges across continents vision of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint and University College London. T WELVE CMU’S NEWS SOURCE FOR FACULTY & STAFF 4/14 ISSUE 2 D EBORAH S TINE P RIME S THE P UM P FOR THE S COTT I N S TITUTE 3 R E S EARCH A N A LY S I S C OUL D L EA D Greeks Sing for Kids’ Sake T O B ETTER A S THMA T HERA P IE S 8 P ILEGGI T HREA ds H I S TORY OF C OLLEGE OF E NGINEERING 1 2 B OAR D G AME O FFER S I N S IGHT INTO R OBOT -H UMAN I NTERACTION S Award Winners To Be Honored April 22 n Piper Staff When teaching centers on making con- nections and students become fearless in asking questions to push boundaries, lives are changed. This year’s winners of Carnegie Mellon’s Education Awards include the first recipient from Carnegie Mellon in Qatar, alumni and professors whose outreach goes beyond CMU’s boundar- ies to impact lives in the communities where they live. They will be honored at a Celebration of Education beginning PHOTO BY FABIENNE HUDSON (A’14) PHOTO BY FABIENNE at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 22 in P I K A pp A A lp HA AND K A pp A A lp HA T HETA P ERFORMED A C ARNEGIE M E ll ON - THEMED ADA P TATION OF THE 1 9 5 0 S HIT MUSICA L Rangos 1 and 2 of the University “ G REASE ” AT THIS YEAR ’ S G REE K S ING . A B UGGY STOOD IN FOR THE ICONIC “ G REASED L IGHTNIN ’ ” CON V ERTI bl E . T HIS YEAR Center. The event is free and open to G REE K S ING RAISED MORE THAN $ 9 0 , 0 0 0 FOR THE C HI L DREN ’ S I NSTITUTE OF P ITTS B URGH , WHICH B RINGS ITS FOUR - YEAR the public. TOTA L IN DONATIONS TO MORE THAN $250,000. R EAD MORE A B OUT CMU ’ S COM P ETITI V E SINGING CU LTURE ON P AGE E L E V EN . C ONTINUED ON P AGE FOUR Room To Spring Carnival Turns 100 Breathe n Kelly Solman creativity over the years,” said Jackson Technology’s “Qualification Day” — the Gallagher (A’14), co-chair of the Spring official acceptance of freshman plebes Spring Carnival has had many ups, Carnival Committee along with Emily Hrin — and the May Festival of the Margaret downs, starts and stops during its first (DC’14). “It seems only right to honor the Morrison Carnegie College. In 1920, the 100 years — and that doesn’t just refer creativity of generations of CMU students tradition grew into “Campus Week” and to the Ferris wheel. as we reach this special milestone.” the first Buggy Sweepstakes with crates In a nostalgic look at the century-old The origins of Spring Carnival can and rain barrels on wheels. A “Campus Carnegie Mellon tradition, carnival goers be traced back to Carnegie Institute of C ONTINUED ON P AGE SIX this year will be treated to the “Best of the Best” from days gone by, as the uni- versity honors the event’s most memo- rable booth themes, traditions and more. Spring Carnival’s history will be on display in the University Center, from A NEW COM P UTER P ROGRAM CAN photos taken through the decades to IDENTIFY P ATIENT C L USTERS WHO models of buggies past and present. HA V E SIMI L AR SU B TY P ES OF ASTHMA . “From its humble ‘Qualification T HIS MAY L EAD TO MORE TARGETED Day’ beginnings in 1915 to today’s sleek TREATMENTS IN THE FUTURE . R EAD buggy designs and multi-level booths, MORE ON P AGE THREE . Spring Carnival has seen loads of O NE Q&A: Deborah Stine Primes the Pump for the Scott Institute n Heidi Opdyke I’ve known some of CMU’s En- When should faculty members Deborah Stine joined Carnegie Mellon in the fall of 2012 as a professor of the gineering and Public Policy people for reach out to you? practice in engineering and public policy (EPP) and associate director for policy a long time. Ed Rubin, was on my first I’d be interested in hearing from faculty outreach for the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. The Piper recently National Academy of Sciences com- members producing energy-related caught up with Stine to discuss her dual role.
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