Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation

Vasiliki  Charisi; Daniel Patrick Davison; Frances Martine Wijnen; Dennis  Reidsma; Vanessa  Evers

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_67

Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation

Vasiliki Charisi, Daniel Patrick Davison, Frances Martine Wijnen, Dennis Reidsma, Vanessa Evers

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This paper presents the design and validation of a measurement instrument for children’s perceptions of robots’ social competence. The need for a standardized validated instrument has emerged as a requisite for meta-analyses and comparisons among various studies in the field of child-robot interaction. We report on the development of the instrument and its validation, which adopted a design-based method with two iterations. We used construct validity, which was formed by divergent and convergent validity. Children’s perceptions of three different robotic platforms were examined in two empirical studies with 78 children aged 7-9 years, which was based on semi-structured interviews with qualitative thematic content analysis. The results indicated that children differentiate their perception of social competence depending on the perceived intentionality of the robot and they ascribe discrete categorizations to the robot such as a machine, social artifact and social agent. The findings are discussed in relation to existing literature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Robotics
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Abderrahmane Kheddar, Eiichi Yoshida, Shuzhi Sam Ge, Kenji Suzuki, John-John Cabibihan, Friederike Eyssel, Hongsheng He
Place of Publication	Cham
Pages	676-686
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-70022-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_67
Publication status	Published - 23 Nov 2017
Event	9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017 - Tsukuba, Japan Duration: 22 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017 Conference number: 9 http://www.icsr2017.org

Publication series

Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	10652
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017
Abbreviated title	ICSR
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tsukuba
Period	22/11/17 → 24/11/17
Internet address	http://www.icsr2017.org

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Child-robot interaction
Assessment
Social competence

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Charisi, V., Davison, D. P., Wijnen, F. M., Reidsma, D., & Evers, V. (2017). Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation. In A. Kheddar, E. Yoshida, S. S. Ge, K. Suzuki, J.-J. Cabibihan, F. Eyssel, & H. He (Eds.), Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings (pp. 676-686). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 10652).. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_67

Charisi, Vasiliki ; Davison, Daniel Patrick ; Wijnen, Frances Martine et al. / Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence : Design and Validation. Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. editor / Abderrahmane Kheddar ; Eiichi Yoshida ; Shuzhi Sam Ge ; Kenji Suzuki ; John-John Cabibihan ; Friederike Eyssel ; Hongsheng He. Cham, 2017. pp. 676-686 (Lecture notes in computer science).

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Charisi, V, Davison, DP, Wijnen, FM, Reidsma, D & Evers, V 2017, Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation. in A Kheddar, E Yoshida, SS Ge, K Suzuki, J-J Cabibihan, F Eyssel & H He (eds), Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 10652, Cham, pp. 676-686, 9th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, 22/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_67

Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation. / Charisi, Vasiliki ; Davison, Daniel Patrick; Wijnen, Frances Martine et al.
Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Abderrahmane Kheddar; Eiichi Yoshida; Shuzhi Sam Ge; Kenji Suzuki; John-John Cabibihan; Friederike Eyssel; Hongsheng He. Cham, 2017. p. 676-686 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 10652).

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Charisi V, Davison DP, Wijnen FM, Reidsma D , Evers V. Measuring Children’s Perceptions of Robots’ Social Competence: Design and Validation. In Kheddar A, Yoshida E, Ge SS, Suzuki K, Cabibihan JJ, Eyssel F, He H, editors, Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. Cham. 2017. p. 676-686. (Lecture notes in computer science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_67

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