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Meeting Time: 2020-11-16T16:46:14Z
Cornell
Institute for Digital Agriculture – Fall 2020 Seminar Series:
New Faculty
Research in Digital Agriculture
Remote observation of
farm vehicle interaction
Wendy Ju, Associate Professor,
Information Science, Jacobs
Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
Abstract:
Travel restrictions and social distancing measures make it
difficult to observe, monitor or manage physical fieldwork. We describe
research in progress that applies technologies for real-time remote observation
and conversation in on-road vehicles to observe field work on a farm. We
collaborated on a pilot deployment of this project at Kreher Eggs in upstate
New York. We instrumented a tractor with equipment to remotely observe and
interview farm workers performing vehicle-related work. This work was initially
undertaken to allow sustained observation of field work over longer periods of
time from geographically distant locales; given our current situation, this
work provides a case study in how to perform observational research when
geographic and bodily distance have become the norm.
Bio:
Dr. Wendy Ju is an
Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
and in the Information Science field at Cornell University. She is also on the
faculty at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Wendy designs human
interaction with automated systems, particularly robots and autonomous
vehicles. Wendy has innovated numerous methods for early-stage prototyping of
automated systems to understand how people will respond to systems before the systems
are built. She has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a
Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her monograph on The Design of
Implicit Interactions was published in 2015.