TY - GEN
T1 - Getting Acquainted for a Long-Term Child-Robot Interaction
AU - Ligthart, Mike
AU - Neerincx, Mark A.
AU - Hindriks, Koen V.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We are developing a social robot that should autonomously interact long-term with pediatric oncology patients. The child and the robot need to get acquainted with one another before a long-term interaction can take place. We designed five interaction design patterns and two sets of robot behaviors to structure a getting acquainted interaction. We discuss the results of a user study (N = 75, 8–11 y.o.) evaluating these patterns and robot behaviors. Specifically, we are exploring whether the children successfully got acquainted with the robot and to what extent the children bonded with the robot. Results show that children effectively picked up how to talk to the robot. This is important, because the better the performance the more comfortable the children are, the more socially attractive the robot is, and the more intimate the conversation gets. The evaluation furthermore revealed that it is important for children, in order to get familiar with the robot, to have shared interests with the robot. Finally, most children did initiate a bond with the robot.
AB - We are developing a social robot that should autonomously interact long-term with pediatric oncology patients. The child and the robot need to get acquainted with one another before a long-term interaction can take place. We designed five interaction design patterns and two sets of robot behaviors to structure a getting acquainted interaction. We discuss the results of a user study (N = 75, 8–11 y.o.) evaluating these patterns and robot behaviors. Specifically, we are exploring whether the children successfully got acquainted with the robot and to what extent the children bonded with the robot. Results show that children effectively picked up how to talk to the robot. This is important, because the better the performance the more comfortable the children are, the more socially attractive the robot is, and the more intimate the conversation gets. The evaluation furthermore revealed that it is important for children, in order to get familiar with the robot, to have shared interests with the robot. Finally, most children did initiate a bond with the robot.
KW - Bonding
KW - Child-robot interaction
KW - Getting acquainted
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076544203&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_39
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076544203
SN - 9783030358877
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 423
EP - 433
BT - Social Robotics - 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Salichs, Miguel A.
A2 - Ge, Shuzhi Sam
A2 - Barakova, Emilia Ivanova
A2 - Cabibihan, John-John
A2 - Wagner, Alan R.
A2 - Castro-González, Álvaro
A2 - He, Hongsheng
PB - Springer
T2 - 11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019
Y2 - 26 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
ER -