Memo18-Time+activity

Schedule of Activities

The proposed study will last tow year. It will start in August 2011 and will end in August 2013. Ø August 2011- I will initiate collecting and analyzing primary and secondary literature on schizophrenia, socio robotic and anthropomorphous robots. I will also start writing interview questions and contacting with interviewees. Ø October 2011- I will send the question to interviewees for their approval and editing and will code them for analysis. I will start the initial interviews with socio robotic scholars in Carnegie Mellon University, Socio Robotic Institute, Stanford University, MIT and RPI in USA and Waseda University, Humanoid Robot Institute, The university of Tokyo, The Robotic Society of Japan and Osaka University in Japan. Also I will start interviews with psychiatrics in New York State Psychiatric Institute and Ichinodai Mental Clinic, Tokyo, Japan. Ø Novermber 2011- I will analyze the first interviews and return them to interviewees for editing and approval. Concurrently, I will start refining coding structure. Ø December 2011-I will start the first round of interviews with psychiatrics, socio robotic, robotic engineers, family and community members of patients with schizophrenia and schizophrenic patients in USA. The interviews will be returned to the interviewees for editing. Ø March2012-I will complete analysis of existing data and information and will draw out themes as laid out in the research questions. Ø April 2012-I will travel to Japan, Tokyo to initiate my interviews with psychiatrics, socio robotic, robotic engineers, family and community members of patients with schizophrenia and schizophrenic patients. Ø May2012- I will start analyzing existing data and interviews with Japanese. I will also start negotiation with Japanese robotic engineers to program an anthropomorphous robot based on data collected of interviews, a humanoid robot more close to the social and communication desires of schizophrenic patients. Ø July 2012- I will start the 6 month field observation in Waseda University, Humanoid Robot Institute to observe the social and communication relations of anthropomorphous robots and schizophrenic patients. Ø January 2013- I will send the results of field observation to the psychiatrists and socio robotic scholars of Japan for the second interview.
 * 1-** **August 2011- March 2012**
 * 2-** **March 2012-February 2013**

Ø February 2013- I will return to USA and will send the results of field observation to psychiatrists and socio robotic scholars to continue the second round of interviews with them. Simultaneously, I will start publishing the results in the relative conferences. Ø August 2013- I will finish writing and defending the thesis.
 * //3-//** **//February2013-August 2013//**