TY - GEN
T1 - Age-related Differences in Children's Associations and Preferences for a Robot's Gender
AU - Sandygulova, Anara
AU - O'Hare, Gregory Mp
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Authors.
PY - 2018/3/1
Y1 - 2018/3/1
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - age
KW - child-robot interaction
KW - gender
KW - human-robot interaction
KW - social robotics
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U2 - 10.1145/3173386.3177077
DO - 10.1145/3173386.3177077
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85045249595
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 235
EP - 236
BT - HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018
Y2 - 5 March 2018 through 8 March 2018
ER -