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I Can Help You: Altruistic Behaviors from Children towards a Robot at a Kindergarten

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Yuuki Yasumatsu,

Taichi Sono,

Komei Hasegawa,

Michita ImaiAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 331 - 332

https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038305

Published: 06 March 2017 Publication History

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When a robot fails a task and cannot recover by itself, altruistic behavior from a human partner is important. We investigated the design that the robot induces altruistic behavior from people. We carried out the field study in the kindergarten and observed the scene children helped the robot. The result suggests that robot should have the abilities of conveying its intention, representing liveness and expressing its emotion to induce altruistic behavior from people. The result also reveals that the social constraint and the recognition of the robot are related to altruistic behavior.

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HRI '17: Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2017

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ISBN:9781450348850

DOI:10.1145/3029798

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Bilge Mutlu
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