What Do Children Want from a Social Robot? Toward Gratifications Measures for Child-Robot Interaction

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Authors
Publication date 2019
Book title IEEE RO-MAN 2019
Book subtitle the 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication : "Responsible Robotics and AI for the Real World" : October 14-17, 2019, Le Meridien, Windsor Place, New Delhi, India
ISBN
  • 9781728126234
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781728126227
Event The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Pages (from-to) 512-519
Publisher Piscataway, NJ : IEEE
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
Abstract
Social robots have, in the case of children, rarely been studied from a uses-and-gratifications perspective. As social robots differ from more traditional media, the first aim of this study was to explore the gratifications that children seek and obtain from social robots. This was investigated in a study among 87 children. The second aim was to develop and initially validate measures for those gratifications. We studied this among a sample of 24 children. The measures for hedonic and social gratifications-obtained worked reasonably well. The measures for hedonic and informative gratifications-sought seemed problematic, whereas the others were acceptable. Our measures present a first step toward enabling future research on children’s gratifications of social robots.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956319
Other links https://www.proceedings.com/52289.html
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