Robot-mediated interviews--how effective is a humanoid robot as a tool for interviewing young children?

ABSTRACT: Robots have been used in a variety of education, therapy or entertainment contexts. This paper introduces the novel application of using humanoid robots for robot-mediated interviews. An experimental study examines how children's responses towards the humanoid robot KASPAR in an interview context differ in comparison to their interaction with a human in a similar setting. Twenty-one children aged between 7 and 9 took part in this study. Each child participated in two interviews, one with an adult and one with a humanoid robot. Measures include the behavioural coding of the children's behaviour during the interviews and questionnaire data. The questions in these interviews focused on a special event that had recently taken place in the school. The results reveal that the children interacted

SUBMITTER: Wood LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3606117 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature