Paper Info
Title
Influence Of Reaction Time In The Emotional Response Of A Companion Robot To A Child'S Aggressive Interaction
Abstract
The quality of a companion robot's reaction is important to make it acceptable to the users and to sustain interactions. Furthermore, the robot's reaction can be used to train socially acceptable behaviors and to develop certain skills in both normally developing children and children with cognitive disabilities. In this study, we investigate the influence of reaction time in the emotional response of a robot when children display aggressive interactions toward it. Different interactions were considered, namely, pickup, shake, drop and throw. The robot produced responses as audible sounds, which were activated at three different reaction times, namely, 0.5 s, 1.0 s, and 1.5 s. The results for one of the tasks that involved shaking the robotic toys produced a significant difference between the timings tested. This could imply that producing a late response to an action (i.e. greater than 1.0 s) could negatively affect the children's comprehension of the intended message. Furthermore, the response should be comprehensible to provide a clear message to the user. The results imply that the designers of companion robotic toys need to consider an appropriate timing and clear modality for their robots' responses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s12369-020-00626-z
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Companion robots, Machine learning, Autism spectrum disorders, Children, Robots for therapy, Meltdown, Long short-term memory network (LSTM)
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1875-4791
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmad Yaser Alhaddad111.71
John-John Cabibihan237039.78
Andrea Bonarini362376.73