Wizard of Oz vs autonomous: Children's perception changes according to robot's operation condition

Tozadore, Daniel Carnieto; Pinto, Adam Henrique Moreira; Romero, Roseli Aparecida Francelin; Trovato, Gabriele

doi:10.1109/roman.2017.8172374

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“…As to the impact of robot characteristics on experiential states, robots' responsiveness [23,61,67,95,106,119,130,133,139] and tailoring [2,7,90,114,117,129] primarily seemed to foster children's engagement. When responsiveness was kept constant, the mode of controlling a robot neither influenced engagement [35] nor enjoyment [140]. While qualitative findings indicate that role was associated with engagement [28,98,111], quantitative findings were inconsistent [36,96,104].…”

Section: Experiential Statesmentioning

confidence: 92%

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: Experiential Statesmentioning

confidence: 92%

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

Straten

Peter

Kühne

2019

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…They showed that adults who were presented with a cleaning robot that behaved seemingly autonomously were significantly faster to comply with a request for help made by the robot than participants who were in the same situation but believed the robot to be tele-operated. Moreover, although children report similar enjoyment in interactions with humanoid robots that they believe to be tele-operated or autonomous, they attribute lower intelligence to the tele-operated robot (Tozadore et al, 2017). These findings suggest that seemingly autonomously behaving robots might be perceived as more animate than tele-operated robots.…”

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confidence: 88%

Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot

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Young children help others in a range of situations, relatively indiscriminate of the characteristics of those they help. Recent results have suggested that young children's helping behavior extends even to humanoid robots. However, it has been unclear how characteristics of robots would influence children's helping behavior. Considering previous findings suggesting that certain robot features influence adults' perception of and their behavior toward robots, the question arises of whether young children's behavior and perception would follow the same principles. The current study investigated whether two key characteristics of a humanoid robot (animate autonomy and friendly expressiveness) would affect children's instrumental helping behavior and their perception of the robot as an animate being. Eighty-two 3-year-old children participated in one of four experimental conditions manipulating a robot's ostensible animate autonomy (high/low) and friendly expressiveness (friendly/neutral). Helping was assessed in an out-of-reach task and animacy ratings were assessed in a post-test interview. Results suggested that both children's helping behavior, as well as their perception of the robot as animate, were unaffected by the robot's characteristics. The findings indicate that young children's helping behavior extends largely indiscriminately across two important characteristics. These results increase our understanding of the development of children's altruistic behavior and animate-inanimate distinctions. Our findings also raise important ethical questions for the field of child-robot interaction.

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“…As for the autonomy of the robot, the results were inconclusive. Whereas one study (De Haas, Mois Arayo, Barakova, Haselager, & Smeekens, 2016) did not find a significant difference in children's intentional acceptance of an autonomous and tele-operated robot, another study (Tozadore, Pinto, Romero, & Trovato, 2017) found that children's intentional acceptance of an autonomous robot was higher than that of a tele-operated one.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Children’s acceptance of social robots

Jong

Peter

Kühne

et al. 2019

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Social robots progressively enter children’s lives, but little is known about children’s acceptance of social robots and its antecedents. To fill this research gap, this narrative review surveyed 34 articles on child-robot interaction published between 2000 and 2017. We focused on robot, user, and interaction characteristics as potential antecedents of children’s intentional and behavioral social robot acceptance. In general, children readily accept robots. However, we found that social, adaptive robot behavior, children’s sex and age, as well as frequency of the interaction seem to affect acceptance. Additionally, we found various theoretical and methodological shortcomings in the field. The review concludes with recommendations and directions for future research on children’s acceptance of social robots.

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Wizard of Oz vs autonomous: Children's perception changes according to robot's operation condition

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

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

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

Young Children’s Indiscriminate Helping Behavior Toward a Humanoid Robot

Children’s acceptance of social robots

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