Title
Child-Robot Interaction to Integrate Reflective Storytelling Into Creative Play
Abstract
ABSTRACT When young children create, they are exploring their emerging skills. And when young children reflect, they are transforming their learning experiences. Yet early childhood play environments often lack toys and tools to scaffold reflection. In this work, we design a stuffed animal robot to converse with young children and prompt creative reflection through open-ended storytelling. We also contribute six design goals for child-robot interaction design. In a hybrid Wizard of Oz study, 33 children ages 4-5 years old across 10 U.S. states engaged in creative play then conversed with a stuffed animal robot to tell a story about their creation. By analyzing children’s story transcripts, we discover four approaches that young children use when responding to the robot’s reflective prompting: Imaginative, Narrative Recall, Process-Oriented, and Descriptive Labeling. Across these approaches, we find that open-ended child-robot interaction can integrate personally meaningful reflective storytelling into diverse creative play practices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3450741.3465254
Creativity and Cognition
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Layne Jackson Hubbard110.35
Yifan Chen25819.82
Eliana Colunga310.35
Pilyoung Kim410.35
Tom Yeh510.35