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Monkey Business is Rachel's Masters thesis project. She has been working on building and maintaining the
monkeys, equipping them with microphones, speakers, and sensors, figuring out how they should react to
different events in the offices they inhabit, what sounds they should make, and how they should move.
She has also been working with Paulina on coordinating and running the user studies. Any inquiries about
the Monkey Business project should be directed to Rachel.
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Paulina comes to us from Stockholm, Sweden, as a visiting student. During her stay at the Media Lab, she
has been instrumental in running user studies for the Monkey Business project to determine how people
react to having a robotic monkey in their office. The user study portion of the project also serves
as Paulina's Masters thesis for her program at KTH in Sweden.
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Stefan's Cellular Squirrel
PhD project was one of the major inspirations for Monkey Business. He continues to be a helpful source of
information, even from his new home in San Francisco.
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Chaochi wrote code enabling the monkeys to make sounds while moving. He also helped to equip the
monkeys with motion and proximity sensors, and helped with the code for this as well.
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Jaewoo used his expertise in sound editing to transform recorded chimpanzee vocalizations into the
sounds the monkey makes when expressing the six basic Ekman emotions. He also created graphics of
six monkey faces to express the basic Ekman emotions.
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Matt is an invaluable UROP in our group. He wrote audio streaming code enabling two monkeys to
communicate with each other in real time.
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Chris is our advisor. Monkey Business grew partly out of his love for cute, furry animals, combined
with his expertise in speech and communication technologies.
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