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Drawings for Insight on Preschoolers' Perception of Robots

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The design of robots and robot-mediated activities for children needs to be informed by their expectations on robots, to ensure acceptability and effectiveness. Children drawings are a powerful tool to understand and describe these expectations, containing actionable insights for robot designers. We report a preliminary study of 50 drawings made by preschool children and investigate (i) their perception of robots and (ii) the change in perception induced by a short experience with real robots. Our analyses reveal that the children's age not only influences their perception of robots, but also how their perception changes after encountering robots.

Source: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640608

Authors: Irina Rudenko, Utku Norman, Romain Maure, Andrey Rudenko, Nora Weinberger, Franziska Krebs, Fabian Peller-Konrad, Fabian Reister, Tamim Asfour, Barbara Bruno

Institutions: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Robert Bosch (Germany)

Language: English

Topic: Social Robot Interaction and HRI

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4392646554

FWCI: 2.137

Cites: 15

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10