TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards Long-Term Social Child-Robot Interaction: Using Multi-Activity Switching to Engage Young Users
JF - Journal of Human-Robot Interaction
Y1 - 2016
A1 - Coninx, Alexandre
A1 - Paul E. Baxter
A1 - Oleari, Elettra
A1 - Bellini, Sara
A1 - Bierman, Bert
A1 - Henkemans, Olivier Blanson
A1 - Lola Cañamero
A1 - Cosi, Piero
A1 - Valentin Enescu
A1 - Espinoza, Raquel Ros
A1 - Antoine Hiolle
A1 - Remi Humbert
A1 - Kiefer, Bernd
A1 - Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana
A1 - Looije, Rosmarijn
A1 - Mosconi, Marco
A1 - Mark A. Neerincx
A1 - Giulio Paci
A1 - Patsis, Georgios
A1 - Pozzi, Clara
A1 - Sacchitelli, Francesca
A1 - Hichem Sahli
A1 - Alberto Sanna
A1 - Sommavilla, Giacomo
A1 - Tesser, Fabio
A1 - Yiannis Demiris
A1 - Tony Belpaeme
AB - Social robots have the potential to provide support in a number of practical domains, such as learning and behaviour change. This potential is particularly relevant for children, who have proven receptive to interactions with social robots. To reach learning and therapeutic goals, a number of issues need to be investigated, notably the design of an effective child-robot interaction (cHRI) to ensure the child remains engaged in the relationship and that educational goals are met. Typically, current cHRI research experiments focus on a single type of interaction activity (e.g. a game). However, these can suffer from a lack of adaptation to the child, or from an increasingly repetitive nature of the activity and interaction. In this paper, we motivate and propose a practicable solution to this issue: an adaptive robot able to switch between multiple activities within single interactions. We describe a system that embodies this idea, and present a case study in which diabetic children collaboratively learn with the robot about various aspects of managing their condition. We demonstrate the ability of our system to induce a varied interaction and show the potential of this approach both as an educational tool and as a research method for long-term cHRI.
VL - 5
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5898/JHRI.5.1.Coninx
IS - 1
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TY - CONF
T1 - Let’s Be Friends: Perception of a Social Robotic Companion for children with T1DM
T2 - Proc. New Friends 2015
Y1 - 2015
A1 - Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana
A1 - Oleari, Elettra
A1 - Pozzi, Clara
A1 - Sacchitelli, Francesca
A1 - Bagherzadhalimi, Anahita
A1 - Bellini, Sara
A1 - Kiefer, Bernd
A1 - Racioppa, Stefania
A1 - Coninx, Alexandre
A1 - Paul E. Baxter
A1 - Bierman, Bert
A1 - Henkemans, Olivier Blanson
A1 - Mark A. Neerincx
A1 - Rosemarijn Looije
A1 - Yiannis Demiris
A1 - Espinoza, Raquel Ros
A1 - Mosconi, Marco
A1 - Cosi, Piero
A1 - Remi Humbert
A1 - Lola Cañamero
A1 - Hichem Sahli
A1 - Joachim de Greeff
A1 - James Kennedy
A1 - Robin Read
A1 - Lewis, Matthew
A1 - Antoine Hiolle
A1 - Giulio Paci
A1 - Sommavilla, Giacomo
A1 - Tesser, Fabio
A1 - Athanasopoulos, Georgios
A1 - Patsis, Georgios
A1 - Verhelst, Werner
A1 - Alberto Sanna
A1 - Tony Belpaeme
AB - We describe the social characteristics of a robot developed to support children with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) in the process of education and care. We evaluated the perception of the robot at a summer camp where diabetic children aged 10-14 experienced the robot in group interactions. Children in the intervention condition additionally interacted with it also individually, in one-to-one sessions featuring several game-like activities. These children perceived the robot significantly more as a friend than those in the control group. They also readily engaged with it in dialogues about their habits related to healthy lifestyle as well as personal experiences concerning diabetes. This indicates that the one-on-one interactions added a special quality to the relationship of the children with the robot.
JF - Proc. New Friends 2015
CY - Almere, The Netherlands
UR - https://mheerink.home.xs4all.nl/pdf/ProceedingsNF2015-3.pdf
N1 - Download full proceedings (PDF)
ER -