A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot

Cristina Zaga; Roelof A.J. de Vries; Jamy Li; Khiet P. Truong; Vanessa Evers

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025995

A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot

Cristina Zaga, Roelof A.J. de Vries, Jamy Li, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers

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Abstract

In this note, we present minimal robot movements for robotic technology for children. Two types of minimal gaze movements were designed: social-gaze movements to communicate social engagement and deictic-gaze movements to communicate task-related referential information. In a two (social-gaze movements vs. none) by two (deictic-gaze movements vs. none) video-based study (n=72), we found that social-gaze movements significantly increased children's perception of animacy and likeability of the robot. Deictic-gaze and social-gaze movements significantly increased children's perception of helpfulness. Our findings show the compelling communicative power of social-gaze movements, and to a lesser extent deictic-gaze movements, and have implications for designers who want to achieve animacy, likeability and helpfulness with simple and easily implementable minimal robot movements. Our work contributes to human-robot interaction research and design by providing a first indication of the potential of minimal robot movements to communicate social engagement and helpful referential information to children.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	336-341
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4655-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025995
Publication status	Published - May 2017
Event	2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017: Explore, Innovate, Inspire - Colorado Convention Center, Denver, United States Duration: 6 May 2017 → 11 May 2017 https://chi2017.acm.org/

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Conference	2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Abbreviated title	CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	6/05/17 → 11/05/17
Internet address	https://chi2017.acm.org/

Keywords

Children
Human-robot interaction design
Non-anthropomorphic robot
Nonverbal communication
Robot behaviors

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Zaga, C, de Vries, RAJ, Li, J, Truong, KP & Evers, V 2017, A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot. in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 336-341, 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017, Denver, Colorado, United States, 6/05/17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025995

A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children's Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot. / Zaga, Cristina; de Vries, Roelof A.J.; Li, Jamy et al.
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 336-341.

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