Age-related Differences in Children's Associations and Preferences for a Robot's Gender

Anara Sandygulova; Gregory Mp O'Hare

doi:10.1145/3173386.3177077

Age-related Differences in Children's Associations and Preferences for a Robot's Gender

Anara Sandygulova, Gregory Mp O'Hare

Department of Robotics and Mechatronics

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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
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	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177077
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
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

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Sandygulova, A & O'Hare, GM 2018, Age-related Differences in Children's Associations and Preferences for a Robot's Gender. in HRI 2018 - Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 235-236, 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2018, Chicago, United States, 3/5/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173386.3177077

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