Creative Dance: An Approach for Social Interaction between Robots and Children

Ros, Raquel; Demiris, Yiannis

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-02714-2_4

Cited by 22 publications

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“…4b; Ros & Demiris, 2013). It relies on direct interaction between the child and the robot but also involves a screen used as a support device that can be used to provide the child with extra information (such as images or further instructions).…”

Section: Creativementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

Coninx

Baxter

Oleari³

et al. 2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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Social robots have the potential to provide support in a number of practical domains, such as learning and behaviour change. This potential is particularly relevant for children, who have proven receptive to interactions with social robots. To reach learning and therapeutic goals, a number of issues need to be investigated, notably the design of an effective child-robot interaction (cHRI) to ensure the child remains engaged in the relationship and that educational goals are met. Typically, current cHRI research experiments focus on a single type of interaction activity (e.g. a game). However, these can suffer from a lack of adaptation to the child, or from an increasingly repetitive nature of the activity and interaction. In this paper, we motivate and propose a practicable solution to this issue: an adaptive robot able to switch between multiple activities within single interactions. We describe a system that embodies this idea, and present a case study in which diabetic children collaboratively learn with the robot about various aspects of managing their condition. We demonstrate the ability of our system to induce a varied interaction and show the potential of this approach both as an educational tool and as a research method for long-term cHRI.

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Section: Creativementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users

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Baxter

Oleari³

et al. 2015

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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“…This task takes place during the stage where the roles can differ between conditions, and therefore, the corresponding children's performance can vary. From our previous works [36], we could notice that children who were not engaged in the task would not move (or very little) around the room.…”

Section: Participantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The proposed learning framework adopts a relational model [36], where dance concepts are linked to health theme concepts. Through this model children can acquire knowledge on dance movements explained by the dance tutor and, at the same time, learn or reinforce other learning topics (in this work, adopting healthier life-styles).…”

Section: Interactive Learning Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Motivational Approach to Support Healthy Habits in Long-term Child–Robot Interaction

Ros

Oleari²,

Pozzi³

et al. 2016

Int J of Soc Robotics

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We examine the use of role-switching as an intrinsic motivational mechanism to increase engagement in long-term child-robot interaction. The present study describes a learning framework where children between 9 and 11-years-old interact with a robot to improve their knowledge and habits with regards to healthy life-styles. Experiments were carried out in Italy where 41 children were divided in three groups interacting with: (i ) a robot with a role-switching mechanism, (ii ) a robot without a role-switching mechanism and (iii ) an interactive video. Additionally, a control group composed of 43 more children, who were not exposed to any interactive approach, was used as a baseline of the study.During the intervention period, the three groups were exposed to three interactive sessions once a week. The aim of the study was to find any difference in healthy-habits acquisition based on alternative interactive systems, and to evaluate the effectiveness * raquel.ros.espinoza@gmail.com † oleari.elettra@hsr.it ‡ pozzi.clara@hsr.it § sacchitelli.francesca@hsr.it ¶ baranzini.daniele@hsr.it bagherzadhal.anahita@hsr.it * * sanna.alberto@hsr.it † † y.demiris@imperial.ac.uk of the role-switch approach as a trigger for engagement and motivation while interacting with a robot. The results provide evidence that the rate of children adopting healthy habits during the intervention period was higher for those interacting with a robot. Moreover, alignment with the robot behaviour and achievement of higher engagement levels were also observed for those children interacting with the robot that used the role-switching mechanism. This supports the notion that role-switching facilitates sustained long-interactions between a child and a robot.

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“…The present work is based on the approach presented in [5], where creative dance is used as the interaction activity between robot and child. Creative dance is a form of dance where the goal is to explore the body movement based on a set of general guidelines (movement concepts).…”

Section: A Dance Robot Tutormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To this end, basic social queues have been developed along with motivation strategies (such as providing constant positive feedback, head movements, name reference, etc. described in detail in [5]). …”

Section: A Dance Robot Tutormentioning

confidence: 99%