Study Companion Robot

How does a robot that studies with you affect your concentration and productivity? 😎

The idea of a study companion robot stems from the question above. How is it like to have a robotic study buddy? In order to test out the hypothesis behind the question, we designed a socially assistive robot that can help students engaged in a writing task.

Setting up

Keylogger

Enter the project directory keylogger/ and follow the instructions below:

$ make && make install
$ sudo keylogger

Applescript

Open applescript/windows_monitor.scpt using Mac OS X's Script Editor, and modify the file path to match the current project directory.

Web Server

Modify the port number in web/server.py, web/index.html, and monitor.py to be the desired port number that you want to use. Then run the server using the following script:

$ sudo python3 web/server.py

Facial Expression Monitor

After running the server, open a browser (preferably the latest version of Chrome) and open the following URL: http://localhost:8899/index.html to start monitoring the facial expression. You may change 8899 to the correct port number you set in the previous step.

$ sudo python3 monitor.py --model seqlearnModel.pkl --sendMsg