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Design and Perception of a Social Robot to Promote Hand Washing among Children in a Rural Indian School

Year: 2019

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We introduce “Pepe”, a social robot for encouraging proper handwashing behaviour among children. We discuss the motivation, the robot design and a pilot study conducted at a primary school located in the Western Ghats mountain ranges of Southern India with a significant presence of indigenous tribes. The study included individual & group interviews with a randomly selected sample of 45 children to gauge their perception of the Pepe robot across various dimensions including gender, animacy & technology acceptance. We also discuss some HRI implications for running user studies with rural children.

Source: IEEE RO-MAN

DOI: 10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956450

Authors: R Unnikrishnan, Amol Deshmukh, Shanker Ramesh, Sooraj K Babu, Parameswari Anitha, Rao R. Bhavani

Institutions: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of Glasgow

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W3000448987