Bridging the Gap: Designing Accessible Industrial Robotics UIs for Non-Technical Users with Concept Design

A recent robotics AI startup hopes to provide industrial robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) to a non-technical demographic. Their affordable collaborative robotic arms are equipped with computer vision systems. This grants the simplicity, flexibility, and affordability necessary to lower the barrier of entry into automation technologies for smaller and medium-sized manufacturing businesses. In this thesis, I outline my approach to redesigning the startup’s prototype UI inspired by Concept Design, a methodology formalized by MIT professor Daniel Jackson. By clarifying the core concepts of the startup’s application, the presentation became clearer and the robotics company was able to deploy a more adaptable, robust, and intuitive user experience to their first customers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Heng, Tommy Seng

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jackson, Daniel

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
• Copyright retained by author(s)

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151409

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/151409