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What are the benefits of adaptation when applied in the domain of child-robot interaction?

Published: 09 March 2009 Publication History

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There is great potential for robotic devices when being applied with children. They can be used from play to assistive applications. We develop robotic devices for a diverse range of children that differ in age, gender and ability, which includes children that are diagnosed with cognitive difficulties such as autism. Every child is an individual and they vary in their personalities and styles of interaction. Therefore, being able to adjust the robot's behaviour to the type of interaction it is receiving was believed to be essential. In this abstract we examine a series of trials which investigated how adaptation (through changes in motion and sound) on a fully autonomous rolling robot could help gain and sustain the interest of five different children. We discovered surprising benefits to having adaptation on-board Roball.

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F. Michaud and S. Caron. Roball, the rolling robot. Autonomous Robots, 12(2):211--222, 2002.
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F. Michaud, J.-F. Laplante, H. Larouche, A. Duquette, S. Caron, D. Letourneau, and P. Masson. Autonomous spherical mobile robot for child-development studies. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 35:471--480, 2005.

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HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
March 2009
348 pages
ISBN:9781605584041
DOI:10.1145/1514095

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Published: 09 March 2009

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  1. adaptive mobile robots
  2. child-robot interaction (CRI)
  3. experimentation in the wild
  4. human-robot interaction (HRI)

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  • (2024)“No, I Won't Do That.” Assertive Behavior of Robots and its Perception by ChildrenInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-024-01139-916:7(1489-1507)Online publication date: 8-May-2024
  • (2016)Understanding Behaviours and Roles for Social and Adaptive Robots In EducationProceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction10.1145/2974804.2974829(297-304)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2016

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