{"id":1262,"date":"2019-05-02T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1262"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:23:50","slug":"work-up-to-running-5-km-with-the-pepper-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/work-up-to-running-5-km-with-the-pepper-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Work up to running 5 km with the Pepper Robot!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this guest post, Katie Winkle of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a> tells us about an opportunity to get involved in her exciting research.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to be\nrunning an ambitious (and exciting!) research study over the summer\nperiod and am putting out a first call for participants. This will be my\nfinal big study as a PhD student and brings together all of my previous work to\ndate – some of you may have taken part in my previous experiments e.g. doing\nwrist turns with Pepper or arm exercises with the NAO robot. I would really\nappreciate it if you would consider taking part and\/or share with friends\nand family etc. who may be interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be installing a Pepper robot (picture below from one of my previous studies) in the Wallscourt Gym here on campus and using it to guide people through the NHS designed ‘Couch to 5k’ programme (https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/live-well\/exercise\/get-running-with-couch-to-5k\/<\/a>) designed to help people work up to running 5 km. Over the course of the programme, we will be investigating the use of supervised machine learning to have a human fitness instructor train the robot on how to be an encouraging ‘coach’. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The programme is\nmade up of 3x ~30 minute exercise sessions per week over 9 weeks – so\nparticipants should be available and able to visit campus over the summer\nperiod (approx.3rd<\/sup> June up until 18th<\/sup>Augustbut there\nis time built in for participants to take a week or two off for holidays etc<\/strong>. We\nwill make the robot and exercise instructor available at set times each week\nand set-up an online booking system for participants to choose slots from. One\nreason for starting to recruit now is so that we can make sure these time\nslots work for as many people as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

InformationSheet<\/a>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

An initial information sheet is attached above, but essentially we are looking for participants who are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– over 18, fluent\nin English, with no health conditions that might prevent engaging in the\nCouch to 5K programme<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– generally\navailable and able to attend 3x ~30 minute weekly exercise sessions\nat the Wallscourt Gym on Frenchay Campus from early June\nto mid-August<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– interested in\nsigning up for a long-term exercise programme to get running!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in taking part please drop me an email<\/a> and\/or go ahead and complete this poll to give an idea of what day\/times you might be available to work out! https:\/\/forms.gle\/PG7zjHA1DVBqUmEx9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this guest post, Katie Winkle of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory tells us about an opportunity to get involved in her exciting research. I’m going to be running an ambitious (and exciting!) research study over the summer period and am putting out a first call for participants. This will be my final big study as a PhD student … Continue reading “Work up to running 5 km with the Pepper Robot!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,90],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-research","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}