Child–robot interaction across cultures: How does playing a game with a social robot compare to playing a game alone or with a friend?

S Shahid, E Krahmer, M Swerts - Computers in Human Behavior, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study investigates how children from two different cultural backgrounds
(Pakistani, Dutch) and two different age groups (8 and 12 year olds) experience interacting …

Child-robot interaction: playing alone or together?

S Shahid, E Krahmer, M Swerts - CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we propose a new method to evaluate child-robot interaction, by asking
whether playing a game with a state-of-the-art social robot is more similar to playing this …

Child-robot interaction during collaborative game play: Effects of age and gender on emotion and experience

S Shahid, E Krahmer, M Swerts, O Mubin - … of the 22Nd conference of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
In this paper we investigate how boys and girls of 8 and 12 years old experience interacting
with a social robot (iCat) during collaborative game play. The iCat robot and a child …

Measuring young children's long-term relationships with social robots

JMK Westlund, HW Park, R Williams… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Social robots are increasingly being developed for long-term interactions with children in
domains such as healthcare, education, therapy, and entertainment. As such, we need to …

Child–robot relationship formation: A narrative review of empirical research

CL Van Straten, J Peter, R Kühne - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2020 - Springer
This narrative review aimed to elucidate which robot-related characteristics predict
relationship formation between typically-developing children and social robots in terms of …

Assessing children's perceptions and acceptance of a social robot

JM Kory-Westlund, C Breazeal - Proceedings of the 18th ACM …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Children's interactions with social robots and other technologies are increasingly
longitudinal, especially in areas such as healthcare, therapy, and education. As such, we …

Understanding agency in interactions between children with autism and socially assistive robots

ES Short, EC Deng, D Feil-Seifer… - Journal of Human-Robot …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has increasingly been shown to have potential as a tool for
social skills therapy for children with autism, a developmental disorder associated with …

Adaptive social robot for sustaining social engagement during long-term children–robot interaction

MI Ahmad, O Mubin, J Orlando - International Journal of Human …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
One of the known challenges in Children–Robot Interaction (cHRI) is to sustain children's
engagement during long-term interactions with robots. Researchers have hypothesized that …

Creating robotic characters for long-term interaction

AAM Setapen - 2012 - dspace.mit.edu
Researchers studying ways in which humans and robots interact in social settings have a
problem: they don't have a robot to use. There is a need for a socially expressive robot that …

The impact of robot tutor nonverbal social behavior on child learning

J Kennedy, P Baxter, T Belpaeme - Frontiers in ICT, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Several studies have indicated that interacting with social robots in educational contexts
may lead to a greater learning than interactions with computers or virtual agents. As such, an …