You”re Doing It Wrong! Studying Unexpected Behaviors in Child-Robot Interaction

• Presented at: International Conference on Social Robotics, Paris, France, October 26-30, 2015
• Published in: Social Robotics, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference, ICSR 2015, p. 390-400
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9388
• Springer International Publishing, 2015

We present a study on the impact of unexpected robot behaviors on the perception of a robot by children and their subsequent engagement in a playful interaction based on a novel ”domino” task. We propose an original analysis methodology which blends behavioral cues and reported phenomenological perceptions into a compound index. While we found only a limited recognition of the different misbehaviors of the robot that we attribute to the age of the child participants (4-5 years old), interesting findings include a sustained engagement level, an unexpectedly low level of attribution of higher cognitive abilities and a negative correlation between anthropomorphic projections and actual behavioral engagement.

Reference

• Detailed record: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/210570?ln=en
• EPFL-CONF-210570
• doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_39