Paper Info
Title
Eliciting ideal tutor trait perception in robots: pinpointing effective robot design space elements for smooth tutor interactions
Abstract
To approach the physical design of a tutor robot, we obtained 3rd to 5th grade children's evaluations of the relative importance of tutor traits, and of which robot design categories they perceive as most embodying top tutor traits, in an initial exploratory interview study. Results indicate that prototypical "Mechanoid" (humanoid or robotic) designs and animal-shaped designs (whether animal-like in outer cover, or more visibly a robotic animal) are superior to object-based designs (desktop objects or geometric shapes). Furthermore, children's perception of top tutor traits can be better pushed by an animal-shaped design than by a Mechanoid design, with less risk of unintended Uncanny Valley effects. Implications for designing tutor-robot embodiments toward buttressing children's expectations of an ideal tutor and for facilitating interactions, and future research directions are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483539
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer aided instruction,educational robots,human-robot interaction,humanoid robots,Mechanoid design,Uncanny Valley effect,animal-like design,animal-shaped design,children evaluation,children expectations,children perception,desktop objects,effective robot design space element,exploratory interview,geometric shapes,humanoid design,ideal tutor trait perception elicitation,object-based design,physical design,robotic animal,smooth tutor interaction,tutor robot,tutor-robot design,children evaluation,social interaction,tutoring
TUTOR,Uncanny valley,Simulation,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Physical design,Robot,Educational robotics,Perception,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-4673-3055-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan S. Herberg1142.55
Dev C. Behera210.37
Martin Saerbeck316410.10