Influencing Hand-washing Behaviour With a Social Robot: HRI Study With School Children in Rural India

Deshmukh, Amol; Babu, Sooraj K; Unnikrishnan, R.; Ramesh, Shanker; Anitha, P.; Bhavani, Rao R.

doi:10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956367

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“…2). In our study we found that the influence of the social robot over changing handwashing behaviour was significant (40%) and the students also washed their hands with better technique after the robot intervention [22]. structures between the adult interviewer and the child, including suggestibility.…”

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Design and Perception of a Social Robot to Promote Hand Washing among Children in a Rural Indian School

Unnikrishnan

Deshmukh

Ramesh

et al. 2019

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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We introduce "Pepe", a social robot for encouraging proper handwashing behaviour among children. We discuss the motivation, the robot design and a pilot study conducted at a primary school located in the Western Ghats mountain ranges of Southern India with a significant presence of indigenous tribes. The study included individual & group interviews with a randomly selected sample of 45 children to gauge their perception of the Pepe robot across various dimensions including gender, animacy & technology acceptance. We also discuss some HRI implications for running user studies with rural children.

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Design and Perception of a Social Robot to Promote Hand Washing among Children in a Rural Indian School

Unnikrishnan

Deshmukh

Ramesh

et al. 2019

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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“…In 2019, researchers from the AMMACHI Labs, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, conducted a Wizard of Oz experiment among children in a rural Indian school with a social robot called Pepe [25,26]. They leveraged the Hawthorne effect while designing the robot.…”

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Co-designing the Embodiment of a Minimalist Social Robot to Encourage Hand Hygiene Practises Among Children in India

Pasupuleti

Sasidharan

Manikutty

et al. 2023

Int J of Soc Robotics

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We conducted an empirical study to co-design a social robot with children to bring about long-term behavioural changes. As a case study, we focused our efforts to create a social robot to promote handwashing in community settings while adhering to minimalistic design principles. Since cultural views influence design preferences and technology acceptance, we selected forty children from different socio-economic backgrounds across India as informants for our design study. We asked the children to design paper mock-ups using pre-cut geometrical shapes to understand their mental models of such a robot. The children also shared their feedback on the eight resulting different conceptual designs of minimalistic caricatured social robots. Our findings show that children had varied expectations of the robot’s emotional intelligence, interactions, and social roles even though it was being designed for a specific context of use. The children unequivocally liked and trusted anthropomorphized caricatured designs of everyday objects for the robot’s morphology. Based on these findings, we present our recommendations for the physical and interaction features of a minimalist social robot assimilating the children’s inputs and social robot design principles grounded in prior research. Future studies will examine the children’s interactions with a built prototype.

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“…The children have to know the steps of handwashing in order to perform it. In our previous research studies, we found that rural and semi-urban school children in India do not have the correct knowledge about hand hygiene steps as prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) [3]. Therefore, we decided to blend declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge on hand hygiene into a serious game that the children could play with the social robot.…”

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Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

Pasupuleti,

Sasidharan,

Sharma

et al. 2022

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This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel collaborative educational game titled "Land of Hands", involving children and a customized social robot that we designed (HakshE). Through this gaming platform, we aim to teach proper hand hygiene practises to children and explore the extent of interactions that take place between a pro-social robot and children in such a setting. We blended gamification with Computers as Social Actors (CASA) paradigm to model the robot as a social actor or a fellow player in the game. The game was developed using Godot's 2D engine and Alice 3. In this study, 32 participants played the game online through a video teleconferencing platform Zoom.To understand the influence a pro-social robot's nudges has on children's interactions, we split our study into two conditions: With-Nudges and Without-Nudges. Detailed analysis of rubrics and video analyses of children's interactions show that our platform helped children learn good hand hygiene practises. We also found that using a pro-social robot creates enjoyable interactions and greater social engagement between the children and the robot although learning itself wasn't influenced by the pro-sociality of the robot.

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Influencing Hand-washing Behaviour With a Social Robot: HRI Study With School Children in Rural India

Cited by 16 publications

References 24 publications

Design and Perception of a Social Robot to Promote Hand Washing among Children in a Rural Indian School

Design and Perception of a Social Robot to Promote Hand Washing among Children in a Rural Indian School

Co-designing the Embodiment of a Minimalist Social Robot to Encourage Hand Hygiene Practises Among Children in India

Exploring Collaborative Game Play with Robots to Encourage Good Hand Hygiene Practises among Children

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