Paper Info
Title
Behaviour delay and robot expressiveness in child-robot interactions: a user study on interaction kinesics
Abstract
This paper presents results of a novel study on interaction kinesics where 18 children interacted with a humanoid child-sized robot called KASPAR. Based on findings in psychology and social sciences we propose the temporal behaviour matching hypothesis which predicts that children will adapt to and match the robot's temporal behaviour. Each child took part in six experimental trials involving two games in which the dynamics of interactions played a key part: a body expression imitation game, where the robot imitated expressions demonstrated by the children, and a drumming game where the robot mirrored the children's drumming. In both games KASPAR responded either with or without a delay. Additionally, in the drumming game, KASPAR responded with or without exhibiting facial/gestural expressions. Individual case studies as well as statistical analysis of the complete sample are presented. Results show that a delay of the robot's drumming response lead to larger pauses (with and without robot nonverbal gestural expressions) and longer drumming durations (with nonverbal gestural expressions only). In the imitation game, the robot's delay lead to longer imitation eliciting behaviour with longer pauses for the children, but systematic individual differences are observed in regards to the effects on the children's pauses. Results are generally consistent with the temporal behaviour matching hypothesis, i.e. children adapted the timing of their behaviour, e.g. by mirroring to the robot's temporal behaviour.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1349822.1349826
HRI
Keywords
Field
DocType
games kaspar,robot nonverbal gestural expression,behaviour delay,child-robot interaction,imitation game,longer imitation,interaction kinesics,humanoid child-sized robot,delay lead,robot expressiveness,body expression imitation game,user study,temporal behaviour,gestural expression,longer pause,robot kinematics,humanoid robots,social science,psychology,face,human robot interaction,social sciences,gesture recognition,games,face recognition,statistical analysis
Expression (mathematics),Kinesics,Computer science,Simulation,Nonverbal communication,Imitation,Mirroring,Matching hypothesis,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.35
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ben Robins136738.14
Kerstin Dautenhahn23124347.57
Rene Boekhorst349041.48
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv41219138.00