• Question: would you ever meet any of the people who you helped like design ways to make their life easier ?

    Asked by niamhc.8 to Conor on 4 Mar 2016.
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      Conor McGinn answered on 4 Mar 2016:


      Of course, to solve a problem you need to understand it. Ive spent a lot of time with people of various disabilities and the elderly. What people often forget that for a product to be successful it needs to do more than provide function. For robots in particular, it needs to look right and it’s movement should be predictable. This is information we can’t get from lab tests, only from meeting with and testing with the users.

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