Memo+17-+study+component

Study components: 1- **//Review of Primary literature and development of interview questions //**: In my research I will review the related literature of treatments of schizophrenic people and the advent and growth of socio robotic field. So the first part of my background research will be related to the scrutinizing the primary and secondary literature on schizophrenia as a psychological disorder and its treatment ways, medical and psychiatric ones in order to have a comprehensive understanding of efficiency of each treatment way in recovering schizophrenic people, to know the causes and symptoms of this psychological disorder and then reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of each treatment ways, to know what are the main factors in recovering schizophrenia, to review the literature on the roles of family, friend and group support , to review the communication and social relations of schizophrenic patients and to know what are the best ways of communication with them. To get these data, interviewing with psychiatrists, family members of schizophrenia, community members of schizophrenia societies and some schizophrenia patients will aid to precede the study. The other study component of this research will be reviewing periodicals, media archives r any documentary related to schizophrenia such as schizophrenia bulletin to become more aware of the latest innovations in recovering this mental disease. The second part will be reviewing the literature of the new field of socio robotic and human robot interactions to know about the functions of robotic technology in medical industry and psychiatry, to review the tendencies toward designing and programming anthropomorphous robots, to know how robots can help people with psychological disorders. The other study component for this part is media archive of the latest advancement in robotic technologies and interviewing with socio robotic and robotic engineers in USA and Japan on the functions of anthropomorphous robots in order to review the literature of socio robotic field and anthropomorphous robots. Since I will do some interviews with socio robotic scholars, robotic technology engineers and psychiatrists, I will prepare the materials for the multi sited ethnography of socio robotic and schizophrenia in USA and Japan by a set of questions and examples which will be produced by the literature review. Approximately 60 interviews will be conducted, 15 interviews with socio robotic and robotic engineers in USA, 15 with Japanese scholars, 10 with psychiatrics in Japan and 10 USA, 5 interviews with families and community members of schizophrenic patients and 5 interviews with 5 schizophrenic patient in USA and Japan. All will be conducted by face to face interviews. In order to reach the main goal of this research, the psychiatric functions of humanoid robots, I will do a field observation of social and communication interactions of schizophrenic patients with humanoid robots for at least a 6 month period to examine the functions of humanoid robots on treatment of social and emotional conditions of schizophrenic patients. I will choose 2 schizophrenic patients, one male and another one a female patient to review also the role of gender in interactions with robots.  A series of questions which will link the primary aims of the study to the empirical data of the field observation, information gathered by the interviews and particular themes of the STS literatures will help me to analyze data. So at the first stage, interviews will be analyzed and then based on data of the interviews, I will start conducting the field observation. By the data analysis of this observation and interviews, I will examine my hypotheses based on STS theories. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2- Developing question for multi sited ethnographic interviews: //**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3- Empirical observations: //**
 * //<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> 4- Data Analysis: //**