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Designing experiments for children and robots

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IDC '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3397617.3397841

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The way in which a robot is presented to children can have a profound effect on their perception of its capabilities. A Poppy Humanoid robot was introduced to 43 children (aged 7--9) either as a robot that needed programming or as a member of the team which needed to learn. The children were asked to write down three actions they believed that the robot could complete. Thematic analysis was then used to categorise the data. When the robot was not humanised, 71% of the suggestions were about completing a physical action or sequence of actions and 14% required the robot to exhibit intelligence or learning. When humanised, 39% of the actions were physical and 35% were categorised as intelligent. Introducing the robot as human captured emotional and appearance actions not otherwise present.

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IDC '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference: Extended Abstracts

June 2020

367 pages

ISBN:9781450380201

DOI:10.1145/3397617

General Chairs:
Elisa Rubegni
University of Lancaster, UK
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Asimina Vasalou
University College London, UK
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Narcís Parés
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Nitin Sawhney
Aalto University, Finland

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