Final Project: At the show
At the show, we set up our table like a voting booth. We created 50 different cards, each with 3 questions (asked by users), and two answers set in a multiple choice fashion: one answer was from our answer database (thereby created by a human), whereas another question came from a machine. As users voted on which answer they were the most comfortable with, we tallied up the results. Posters were placed all over the place. One advertised the importance and greatness of machines, whereas the other advertised the importance and greatness of humans. As the show started to dwindle down, we presented which answers got the most votes. In the end, surprisingly, it turned out that human answers received the most votes.
We created two voting booths out of foam-core board (due to its relative inexpensiveness, durability, and easiness to cut and modify). The booths were placed beside each other on the table. Because it was dark in the room, we brought in two ordinary desk lamps to help illuminate the booths. People simply took a ballot from one of our group members sitting at the table, voted in the booths, then dropped their ballot off in a ballot box.
In the end the entire show was a success, as was the project. We were very glad when people were telling us they were having a hard time picking answers (which means the machine answer was obviously in the running instead of being some random result) and they seemed pretty interested with our thesis.
