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title : "PBS Features ThoughtWorks Arts Resident & Interaction Technology"
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title : "Robotics Resident Catie Cuan & Interaction Technology"
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Over the summer ThoughtWorks Arts collaborated with dancer and roboticist Catie Cuan, exploring new modes of human-robot interaction.
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{% include youtube id='uyrIfk30LaQ?start=30' ratio='55'
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caption='PBS NewsHour feature of Catie Cuan and CONCAT' %}
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{% include image file='catie-crr.jpg'
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caption='Catie working on-site with the industrial robot arm' %}
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ThoughtWorks developers created a 3D visualization toolkit, enabling Catie to rehearse her own bodily movements alongside those of industrial-scale robots.
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The software, named [CONCAT](https://github.com/thoughtworksarts/concat/), was created by ThoughtWorks software developers [Andrew McWilliams](/bio/andrew-mcwilliams), [Andrea Allen](/bio/andrea-allen/) and [Felix Changoo](/bio/felix-changoo/).
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{% include image file='catie-crr.jpg'
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caption='Catie working on-site with the industrial robot arm' %}
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{% include image file='felix-andy.jpg'
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caption='ThoughtWorks developers Felix Changoo and Andrea Allen' %}
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The tool renders carefully choreographed sequences designed for a 15 foot "ABB IRB 6700" robot at the [Consortium for Research and Robotics](http://consortiumrr.com) in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It allows Catie to design and rehearse her movements both on and off-site with large industrial robots.
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Upon completion of her residency at ThoughtWorks, Catie began her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. There, PBS NewsHour [interviewed Catie about her work](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-these-humanities-graduates-are-finding-jobs-in-silicon-valley), and she demonstrated CONCAT's usefulness for creative movement research.
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Catie's residency demonstrated CONCAT’s usefulness for creative movement research, and upon completion of her residency at ThoughtWorks, Catie began her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.
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{% include image file='felix-andy.jpg'
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caption='ThoughtWorks developers Felix Changoo and Andrea Allen' %}
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{% include youtube id='uyrIfk30LaQ?start=30' ratio='55'
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caption='PBS NewsHour feature of Catie Cuan and CONCAT' %}
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The PBS NewsHour team were interested in Catie's work because of the increasing importance of the public perception of robots, especially as related technologies proliferate in the workplace. Catie's work [deals with these themes](/blog/movement-industrial-robotic-arm/), investigating the communication flows between human and robotic agents.
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Catie’s work recieved considerable media interest due to the increasing importance of the public perception of robots, especially as related technologies proliferate in the workplace. Catie’s work [deals with these themes](/blog/movement-industrial-robotic-arm/), investigating the communication flows between human and robotic agents.
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In addition to rendering robotic movements, CONCAT uses a [Kinect depth sensor](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/kinect) to monitor Catie's movements in real-time, generating a 3D representation on screen alongside the virtual robot arm.
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The software behind the project was written in [openFrameworks](http://openframeworks.cc), a C++ creative coding platform useful for creating fast prototypes incorporating hardware interfaces and computer graphics.
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The tool relies on the [ofxKinectV2-OSC plugin](https://github.com/microcosm/ofxKinectV2-OSC), also written by Andrew McWilliams as a community contribution. All of the software used in creating CONCAT is free and open source.
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The tool relies on the [ofxKinectV2-OSC plugin](https://github.com/microcosm/ofxKinectV2-OSC), also written by Andrew McWilliams as a community contribution. All of the software used in creating CONCAT is free and open source.
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