In My Shoes – Validation of a computer assisted approach for interviewing children

Fängström, Karin; Bokström, Pär; Dahlberg, Anton; Calam, Rachel; Lucas, Steven; Sarkadi, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2016.06.022

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“…Only a few studies have examined the use of computers in conducting interviews with young children. These studies [ 33 , 39 – 41 ] have demonstrated that children who were interviewed using a computer-assisted approach communicated their experiences with great detail, depth, and accuracy, similar to children who were interviewed using standard face-to-face methods. However, no study has yet examined whether all young children benefit equally well from being interviewed using a computer or whether certain groups of children, for example, shy children for whom the interview presents a demanding and uncomfortable situation, respond better to a computer-assisted approach than to a standard face-to-face one.…”

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Interviewing children is a cognitively, socially, and emotionally challenging situation, especially for young and shy children. Thus, finding methods that aid rapport and increase these children's communication is important. The present study investigated whether children's verbal and non-verbal communicative behavior developed differently during the rapport phase, depending on whether children were situationally shy or not, and whether the interview was conducted using the computer-assisted interview In My Shoes (IMS) or a Standard verbal interview. The sample consisted of 60 children aged 4 to 5-years-old. The results showed that for the shy children in the IMS group their talkativeness increased and their answer latency decreased including the amount of encouragement the child needed to talk, while no changes were observed for the shy children in the Standard verbal interview group. There were no significant differences in the non-verbal behavior for the shy children regardless of the interview method used. For the non-shy children, overall, the interview method did not affect either the verbal or the non-verbal outcomes. Our findings indicate that IMS can be a useful tool during the rapport-building phase with shy children as it helps these children to improve their verbal communication.

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“…To sacrifice children's autonomy and privacy for face-to-face questioning gives no guarantee of greater authenticity or of more data. In fact, Fängström et al (2016) found that preschoolers talked more about their subjective experiences in computer-assisted interviews than in face-to-face interviews.…”

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“…CAIs have been particularly useful with vulnerable children, for example, children with autism spectrum disorders (Barrow & Hannah 2012), and preschoolers asked about their emotional reactions to health care visits (Fängström et al, 2016). Alper and Goggin (2017) were careful to note that the digital medium that could make communication easier for disabled children made it harder if their particular vulnerabilities and constraints were ignored.…”

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Computer-Assisted Expressions of the Perspectives of Refugee Children in Resettlement

Lawrence¹,

Kaplan²,

Dodds³

2019

Human Development

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Understanding the perspectives of refugee children on their lives is important for acknowledging children’s rights, competence, and contributions to practice and policy. Children’s perspectives are the views they construct for framing events, relationships and images, and the meanings they convey in relational coactions with other people and institutions. We demonstrate the usefulness of digital technology in the form of computer-assisted interviews (CAIs) for enabling refugee children to express perspectives on their lives in resettlement. We describe how CAIs constructed by adopting a child’s perspective recognize the children’s agency and enable their expressions of their perspectives. We illustrate the facilities of CAIs with analyses of children’s ratings and open-ended typed comments about their worries and who helps them to feel better. Children’s views revealed the predominance of family members as sources of worry and help. We discuss the implications of using digital technology in research to provide children with ways of contributing to knowledge construction.

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“…Another alternative approach would be computer-assisted self interviews [7,18,24,34,41,45]. There have been studies conducted with children using computer-assisted self interviews that have demonstrated an increase in disclosure rates because of the level of anonymity and lack of judgment [7,18,24,34,41,45]; however it is very difficult without the use of an avatar or virtual human to establish rapport [40], which is a critical element in forensic interviews [42]. In order for a forensic interview to be successful in obtaining truthful and accurate information from children, the children must feel a sense of anonymity, a lack of judgement from the interviewer, and have the ability to develop rapport with the interviewer [40,42].…”

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A Robot Forensic Interviewer

Henkel

Bethel

2017

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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The goal of this paper is to begin a discussion of the benefits, challenges, and ethical concerns related to the use of robots as intermediaries for obtaining sensitive information from children within the human-robot interaction (HRI), criminology, sociology, legal, and psychological communities. This work examines how robots may impede disclosures from children, encourage inaccurate disclosures, facilitate unintended disclosures, provide a more reliable interviewer, decrease the likelihood of misleading children, and enhance forensic interviews through high fidelity data logging. Open research questions, proposed research studies, and pathways toward deployment of robots as forensic interviewers are provided. As HRI researchers working in an interdisciplinary team, with members trained by the National Child Advocacy Center in Child Forensic Interview Protocols, we believe sustaining a dialogue concerning the design and appropriate use of robots in this area is essential for continued progress.

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In My Shoes – Validation of a computer assisted approach for interviewing children

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The computer-assisted interview In My Shoes can benefit shy preschool children's communication

The computer-assisted interview In My Shoes can benefit shy preschool children's communication

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