Notes

1. Three tentative groups:
   1. Shannon, Travis, Brandon.
   2. Tatyana, Yitong.
   3. Hajin, Alice, Johnny.
2.  Proposal draft due by Tuesday as blog post.
3. General prompt questions from class today:
   1.  user-interaction?
   2. tone? personality?
   3. physical scale (tabletop/architectural)
   4. tele-action? tele-presence?
   5. singular or multiple entities?
   6. “robots bad at their job”
   7. end state: static or dynamic?
   8. defined success state?
   9. endless action, or performance?
   10. finite lifespan?  decay process?
   11. randomness? type and quality of randomness?
   12. where is the locus of agency?
   13. what does the machine observe? what does it remember?  who might see what it knows?