Social Robots as Physical Curiosity Assessment Tools

Epstein, Matan; Gordon, Goren

doi:10.1109/roman.2018.8525790

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“…The psychological determinants of moment-by-moment social cognition should be further explored. Moreover, we have expanded on an emerging field of using social robots to study human psychology, such as trustworthiness (DeSteno et al, 2012 ) and curiosity (Epstein and Gordon, 2018 ). We suggest that this effective tool has great promise in facilitating more bias-free psychological studies.…”

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“…Based on the most relevant prior research (Epstein and Gordon, 2018 ), we estimate correlations on the order of R 2 = 0.15. For typical values of α = 0.05 and β = 0.2 (Type-II error), the required sample size is 62.…”

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“…While studies have shown that stress can affect the initial perception of social robot poses' valence and arousal (Thimmesch-Gill et al, 2017 ), a brief interaction with a social robot was shown to decrease uncertainty and increase reported social presence (Edwards et al, 2019 ), alluding to a rapid acceptance of social robots as social partners. Finally, social robots have been used to study human curiosity expressions (Epstein and Gordon, 2018 ).…”

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Studying Dynamics of Human Information Gathering Behaviors Using Social Robots

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A novel social interaction is a dynamic process, in which participants adapt to, react to and engage with their social partners. To facilitate such interactions, people gather information relating to the social context and structure of the situation. The current study aimed to deepen the understanding of the psychological determinants of behavior in a novel social interaction. Three social robots and the participant interacted non-verbally according to a pre-programmed “relationship matrix” that dictated who favored whom. Participants' gaze was tracked during the interaction and, using Bayesian inference models, resulted in a measure of participants' social information-gathering behaviors. Our results reveal the dynamics in a novel environment, wherein information-gathering behavior is initially predicted by psychological inflexibility and then, toward the end of the interaction, predicted by curiosity. These results highlight the utility of using social robots in behavioral experiments.

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“…We hypothesize that curious children will choose "good questions", as measured by our tool, and, more specifically, questions of high specificity (H1) [13], [14]. However, based on prior research on curiosity [11], we hypothesize that this effect will manifest only after familiarizing themselves with the game (H2). As divergent validation for our tool, we hypothesize that these measures will not be correlated with perceived intelligence but rather only with curiosity (H3).…”

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“…Children's curiosity has been mainly assessed via subjective observations and reporting [9]. Only recently have novel types of assessments surfaced, namely, a game to assess children's uncertainty seeking [10] and a human-robot interaction setup to assess adults' physically expressed curiosity [11].…”

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Digital Interactive Quantitative Curiosity Assessment Tool: Questions Worlds

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Gordon²

2020

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Curiosity is a 21st century skill and is of paramount importance in the digital age. However, the assessment of curiosity is often based on self-report or subjective observations. We present the development and evaluation of a digital quantitative assessment game for question-asking-based exploration. The student navigates a graphically presented question graph by selecting questions about a series of virtual alien worlds. The game extracts question-related quantitative measures, e.g., the breadth, depth and specificity of the answers to the questions. We conducted a study with Youth University students and administered a curiosity-based questionnaire to their class teachers as an external validation. Our results show that the measure of total question specificity in the last presented world is a significant predictor of children’s curiosity, as rated by their teachers. This suggests that curiosity can be quantitatively assessed by an entertaining digital question-based game.

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Infant-inspired intrinsically motivated curious robots

Gordon

2020

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Social Robots as Physical Curiosity Assessment Tools

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Studying Dynamics of Human Information Gathering Behaviors Using Social Robots

Studying Dynamics of Human Information Gathering Behaviors Using Social Robots

Digital Interactive Quantitative Curiosity Assessment Tool: Questions Worlds

Infant-inspired intrinsically motivated curious robots

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