He can read your mind: Perceptions of a character-guessing robot

Henkel, Zachary; Bethel, Cindy L.; Kelly, John R.; Jones, Alexis; Stives, Kristen L.; Buchanan, Zach; Eakin, Deborah K.; May, David C.; Pilkinton, Melinda

doi:10.1109/roman.2017.8172309

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“…While a robot's responsiveness tended to foster anthropomorphism ( [106] for intelligence; [147] for humanness, but not for intelligence) and perceived support [49,106], children still considered an unresponsive robot a social agent [10]. Mixed effects of various types of expressiveness on anthropomorphism [6,70] as well as perceived empathy and support were reported [37,62].…”

Section: Cognitive Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our first research question was which robot characteristics and interaction styles directly influence closeness and trust. In terms of robot characteristics, a robot's increased responsiveness tended to stimulate closeness between a child and a robot [4,88] as well as children's trust in a robot [23,49]. Additionally, a robot's expressiveness generally seemed important to closeness [105,115,150], whereas adjusting a robot's degree of expressiveness did not further increase closeness [65,70].…”

Section: Effects Of Predictors On Closeness and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Child–Robot Relationship Formation: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research

Straten

Peter

Kühne

2019

Int J of Soc Robotics

103

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This narrative review aimed to elucidate which robot-related characteristics predict relationship formation between typically-developing children and social robots in terms of closeness and trust. Moreover, we wanted to know to what extent relationship formation can be explained by children's experiential and cognitive states during interaction with a robot. We reviewed 86 journal articles and conference proceedings published between 2000 and 2017. In terms of predictors, robots' responsiveness and role, as well as strategic and emotional interaction between robot and child, increased closeness between the child and the robot. Findings about whether robot features predict children's trust in robots were inconsistent. In terms of children's experiential and cognitive states during interaction with a robot, robot characteristics and interaction styles were associated with two experiential states: engagement and enjoyment/liking. The literature hardly addressed the impact of experiential and cognitive states on closeness and trust. Comparisons of children's interactions with robots, adults, and objects showed that robots are perceived as neither animate nor inanimate, and that they are entities with whom children will likely form social relationships. Younger children experienced more enjoyment, were less sensitive to a robot's interaction style, and were more prone to anthropomorphic tendencies and effects than older children. Tailoring a robot's sex to that of a child mainly appealed to boys.

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Section: Cognitive Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Effects Of Predictors On Closeness and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child–Robot Relationship Formation: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research

Straten

Peter

Kühne

2019

Int J of Soc Robotics

103

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“…Fifth and finally, previous CRI studies suggest that individual differences between children may affect how they interact with robots. For instance, boys and girls differ in their perceptions of robots [35] and in their estimation of a robot's (trust-related) abilities [15]. Thus, future studies could Session 7: Trust HAI '18, December 15-18, 2018, Southampton, United Kingdom compare the emergence of different types of trust across biological sexes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technological and Interpersonal Trust in Child-Robot Interaction

Straten

Peter

Kühne

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

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This study aimed to explore technological and interpersonal trust in interactions between children and social robots. Specifically, we focused on whether children distinguish between these two types of trust and whether the two constitute independent constructs or interact. Using an exploratory approach, we analyzed the explanations 87 children, aged 7 to 11 years, offered for the degree to which they indicated to trust a robot with which they had just interacted. Our results suggest that children distinguished between technological and interpersonal trust in a robot. Three main categories of answers could be identified: answers relating to technological trust, those indicating the presence of interpersonal trust, and a third category in which children referred to technological properties of robots as a reason for the existence of interpersonal trust. We discuss these findings in light of the development of child-robot relationships and the design of future child-robot interaction studies. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in HCI • Human-centered computing~User studies • Human-centered computing~HCI theory, concepts and models • Human-centered computing~Field studies

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“…These questions were initially designed as a way to assess general feelings towards to interviewer in a study. As a result of the responses provided by children in earlier studies (specifically responses after the introduction of a character guessing game [18]) questions were tailored to include items concerning the socially protective factors children attributed to the interviewer. The interview was structured as follows:…”

Section: Perceptions Of the Interviewer Interview (Pii)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The participant was asked to think of a character and the robot asked questions about the character, with the participant answering "Yes", "No", "Probably", "Probably not", or "I don't know.". After a number of questions the robot attempted to guess the character (see Henkel et al [18] for comprehensive details).…”

Section: Character Guessing Gamementioning

confidence: 99%

User expectations of privacy in robot assisted therapy

Henkel

Baugus

Bethel

et al. 2019

Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics

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This article describes ethical issues related to the design and use of social robots in sensitive contexts like psychological interventions and provides insights from one user design study and two controlled experiments with adults and children. User expectations regarding privacy with a therapeutic robotic dog, Therabot, gathered from a 16 participant design study are presented. Furthermore, results from 142 forensic interviews about bullying experiences conducted with children (ages 8 to 17) using three different social robots (Nao, Female RoboKind, Male RoboKind) and humans (female and male) as forensic interviewers are examined to provide insights into child beliefs about privacy and social judgment in sensitive interactions with social robots. The data collected indicates that adult participants felt a therapeutic robotic dog would be most useful for children in comparison to other age groups, and should include privacy safeguards. Data obtained from children after a forensic interview about their bullying experiences shows that they perceive social robots as providing significantly more socially protective factors than adult humans. These findings provide insight into how children perceive social robots and illustrate the need for careful considerationwhen designing social robots that will be used in sensitive contexts with vulnerable users like children.

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He can read your mind: Perceptions of a character-guessing robot

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Child–Robot Relationship Formation: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research

Child–Robot Relationship Formation: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research

Technological and Interpersonal Trust in Child-Robot Interaction

User expectations of privacy in robot assisted therapy

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