Abstract
In order to establish social and bonding relationships with children, robots need to be able to adapt to a variety of users of different age and gender groups in order to keep them engaged and motivated. To this end, this research examines the responses of 107 children, ages 5 to 12, who interacted with humanoid robot NAO that communicated with synthesized female and male voices. Our results show young children (ages 5 to 8) were not able to successfully attribute gender to the robot in correspondence with the synthesized voice. In addition, we explicitly investigated childrens preferences for the robots gender: younger children indicated their preference for a robot with a matching gender while there was no difference in preferences for a robots gender by older children (ages 9 to 12).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 235-236 |
Number of pages | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450356152 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 1 2018 |
Event | 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018 - Chicago, United States Duration: Mar 5 2018 → Mar 8 2018 |
Conference
Conference | 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018 |
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Country | United States |
City | Chicago |
Period | 3/5/18 → 3/8/18 |
Keywords
- age
- child-robot interaction
- gender
- human-robot interaction
- social robotics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering