Paper Info
Title
The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children's Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor.
Abstract
An increasing number of applications for social robots focuses on learning and playing with children. One of the unanswered questions is what kind of social character a robot should have in order to positively engage children in a task. In this paper, we present a study on the effect of two different social characters of a robot (peer vs. tutor) on children's task engagement. We derived peer and tutor robot behaviors from the literature and we evaluated the two robot characters in a WoZ study where 10 pairs of children aged 6 to 9 played Tangram puzzles with a Nao robot. Our results show that in the peer character condition, children paid attention to the robot and the task for a longer period of time and solved the puzzles quicker and better than in the tutor character condition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Child-Robot Interaction,Task engagement,Robot characters,Robot behaviors
Conference
9388
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
11
0.76
References 
Authors
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristina Zaga1234.49
Manja Lohse215113.80
Khiet P. Truong330232.64
Vanessa Evers483680.72