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Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interaction between Children and Robots

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Nicole Salomons,

Charlene Stokes,

Brian ScassellatiAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '15: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 75 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696481

Published: 02 March 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Robot assistive technology is becoming increasingly prevalent. Despite the growing body of research in this area, the role of type of interaction (i.e., small groups versus individual interactions) on effectiveness of interventions is still unclear. In this paper, we explore a new direction for socially assistive robotics, where multiple robotic characters interact with children in an interactive storytelling scenario. We conducted a between-subjects repeated interaction study where a single child or a group of three children interacted with the robots in an interactive narrative scenario. Results show that although the individual condition increased participant's story recall abilities compared to the group condition, the emotional interpretation of the story content seemed more dependent on the difficulty level rather than the study condition. Our findings suggest that, despite the type of interaction, interactive narratives with multiple robots are a promising approach to foster children's development of social-related skills.

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Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interaction between Children and Robots
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Robotics
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Control methods
      1. Robotic planning
    2. Planning and scheduling
      1. Robotic planning

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DOI:10.1145/2696454

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