Recognizing Engagement Behaviors in Human-Robot Interaction

Based on analysis of human-human interactions, we have developed an initial model of engagement for human-robot interaction which includes the concept of connection events, consisting of: directed gaze, mutual facial gaze, conversational adjacency pairs, and backchannels. We implemented the model in the open source Robot Operating System and conducted a human-robot interaction experiment to evaluate it

Stock Market Simulation

Each member of this group selected one stock market trading strategy and then subsequently selected companies to invest in over a period of twelve weeks. Each member of this group started with an initial sum of $100,000 which was invested in the stocks they chose. When the twelve weeks came to a completion, this group compared and analyzed each of their selected trading strategies in order to determine which trading strategies are the most successful. This group determined that the most beneficial trading strategy for any possible state of the stock market is the Value Averaging trading strategy