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Re: How are final decisions made?

We developed a comprehensive list of functions the robot might have and asked students to rank their importance on a scale of 1 through 5 (where 1 was not important and 5 was very important). We averaged the importance assigned to each function and then I used that to guide the design. It was a good indicator of what the students would support, but it was by no means a design bible, since it ended up that the students ranked scoring in autonomous mode higher than they did scoring at all, for example.
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