The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor

Cristina Zaga; Manja Lohse; Khiet P. Truong; Vanessa Evers

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70

The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor

Cristina Zaga, Manja Lohse, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers

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Abstract

An increasing number of applications for social robots focuses on learning and playing with children. One of the unanswered questions is what kind of social character a robot should have in order to positively engage children in a task. In this paper, we present a study on the effect of two different social characters of a robot (peer vs. tutor) on children’s task engagement. We derived peer and tutor robot behaviors from the literature and we evaluated the two robot characters in a WoZ study where 10 pairs of children aged 6 to 9 played Tangram puzzles with a Nao robot. Our results show that in the peer character condition, children paid attention to the robot and the task for a longer period of time and solved the puzzles quicker and better than in the tutor character condition.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Robotics
Subtitle of host publication	7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings
Editors	Adriana Tapus, Elisabeth André, Jean-Claude Martin, François Ferland, Mehdi Ammi
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	704- 713
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-25554-5
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-25553-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2015
Event	7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015: Individual Differences - Paris, France Duration: 26 Oct 2015 → 30 Oct 2015 Conference number: 7 http://www.icsoro.org/icsr2015/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	9388
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015
Abbreviated title	ICSR 2015
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	26/10/15 → 30/10/15
Internet address	http://www.icsoro.org/icsr2015/

Keywords

EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/610532
Robot behaviors
Child-robot interaction
Task engagement

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Zaga, C., Lohse, M., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2015). The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. In A. Tapus, E. André, J.-C. Martin, F. Ferland, & M. Ammi (Eds.), Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 704- 713). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9388). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70

Zaga, Cristina ; Lohse, Manja ; Truong, Khiet P. et al. / The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. editor / Adriana Tapus ; Elisabeth André ; Jean-Claude Martin ; François Ferland ; Mehdi Ammi. Cham : Springer, 2015. pp. 704- 713 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Zaga, C, Lohse, M, Truong, KP & Evers, V 2015, The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. in A Tapus, E André, J-C Martin, F Ferland & M Ammi (eds), Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9388, Springer, Cham, pp. 704- 713, 7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, 26/10/15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70

The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. / Zaga, Cristina; Lohse, Manja; Truong, Khiet P. et al.
Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. ed. / Adriana Tapus; Elisabeth André; Jean-Claude Martin; François Ferland; Mehdi Ammi. Cham: Springer, 2015. p. 704- 713 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9388).

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Zaga C, Lohse M, Truong KP , Evers V. The Effect of a Robot's Social Character on Children Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. In Tapus A, André E, Martin JC, Ferland F, Ammi M, editors, Social Robotics: 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2015. p. 704- 713. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_70

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