Children’s Cognition and Inference of the Life Phenomenon about Robotic Dogs

Boram, No; Yi, Siyan

doi:10.7746/jkros.2017.12.3.365

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“…If a robot with more features was presented earlier, it could affect the child’s understanding of the one following it. Therefore, in the same way as a previous research [26], the robot with less features was shown before that with more. Following each video, the participants were asked to judge the animacy and then the six property projection questions set in random order.…”

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Between living and nonliving: Young children’s animacy judgments and reasoning about humanoid robots

Kim

Lee

2019

PLoS ONE

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Humanoid robots will become part of our everyday lives. They have biologically inspired features and psychologically complex properties. How will children interpret these ambiguous objects, discriminating between living and nonliving kinds? Do the biologically and psychologically inspired characteristics affect children’s understanding of the robots? How firm is the distinction that children make between living and nonliving objects? To address these questions, 120 children ranging three to five years initially viewed video clips that depicted humanoid robots interacting with a human experimenter on two different dimensions (mobility and, psychologically contingent behavior). The subjects then answered simple questions that probed their animacy judgments and property projections about the robot. The results showed that children’s animacy assessments about humanoid robots differed by age. When judging the robot’s life status, its mobility was important for four-year-olds and, the psychological contingency for five-year-olds. In terms of the robot’s reasoning abilities, the majority of four-year-old children clearly understood biological properties, regardless of the robots’ features. However, when reasoning about psychological properties, even five-year-olds occasionally relied on robots’ features such as their contingent behaviors. Moreover, the children attributed some but not all animate properties to the robots. Although rent findings show that children possess naïve theories, they do not seem to have a consistent and logical theory of “aliveness,” and they apparently develop the concept of a robot by acquiring knowledge about how this boundary object differs from living entities.

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Between living and nonliving: Young children’s animacy judgments and reasoning about humanoid robots

Kim

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2019

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Children’s Cognition and the Inference of Life Phenomenon about Anthropomorphic Characters

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2018

Korean J Child Stud

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This study aimed to investigate the cognition of life phenomenon regarding anthropomorphic characters according to the characters' properties amongst children aged 3, 4, and 5. Methods: 95 children aged 3 to 5 years from two childcare centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggido participated in this study. Each child was interviewed individually and completed cognition and inference of life phenomenon tasks. Results: First, preschoolers considered anthropomorphic animal characters as animals. Children aged 3, 4, and 5 were likely to refer to the animation characters as alive and considered animation characters to have many biological and psychological traits. Second, there were significant differences in children's inferences of life phenomena according to the properties of the anthropomorphic characters. Preschoolers considered low anthropomorphic animation characters to have more biological traits and reality. For low actuality characters, preschoolers considered them to have more reality. Third, there were significant differences in children's inferences of reality according to their age: 5-year-olds were more likely to infer the animation character as an imaginary entity, compared to 3-year-olds. Conclusion: As the literature related to children's cognition about anthropomorphic characters is limited, this study investigated what children think about animation characters and offers useful guidelines for the development of educational media or applications for young children.

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Children’s Cognition and Inference of the Life Phenomenon about Robotic Dogs

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Between living and nonliving: Young children’s animacy judgments and reasoning about humanoid robots

Between living and nonliving: Young children’s animacy judgments and reasoning about humanoid robots

Children’s Cognition and the Inference of Life Phenomenon about Anthropomorphic Characters

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