Paper Info
Title
A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot.
Abstract
In this note, we present minimal robot movements for robotic technology for children. Two types of minimal gaze movements were designed: social-gaze movements to communicate social engagement and deictic-gaze movements to communicate task-related referential information. In a two (social-gaze movements vs. none) by two (deictic-gaze movements vs. none) video-based study (n=72), we found that social-gaze movements significantly increased children's perception of animacy and likeability of the robot. Deictic-gaze and social-gaze movements significantly increased children's perception of helpfulness. Our findings show the compelling communicative power of social-gaze movements, and to a lesser extent deictic-gaze movements, and have implications for designers who want to achieve animacy, likeability and helpfulness with simple and easily implementable minimal robot movements. Our work contributes to human-robot interaction research and design by providing a first indication of the potential of minimal robot movements to communicate social engagement and helpful referential information to children.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3025453.3025995
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
human-robot interaction design, non-anthropomorphic robot, children, nonverbal communication, robot behavior
Social robot,Helpfulness,Gaze,Computer science,Nonverbal communication,Human–computer interaction,Animacy,Behavior-based robotics,Robot,Perception
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
26
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristina Zaga1234.49
Roelof de Vries2294.31
Jamy Li315617.28
Khiet P. Truong430232.64
Vanessa Evers5273.49