Exploring children's exposure to voice assistants and their ontological conceptualizations of life and technology.

ABSTRACT: Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs) have become a ubiquitous technology in today's home and childhood environments. Inspired by (Bernstein and Crowley, J Learn Sci 17:225-247, 2008) original study (n = 60, age 4-7 years) on how children's ontological conceptualizations of life and technology were systematically associated with their real-world exposure to robotic entities, the current study explored this association for children in their middle childhood (n = 143, age 7-11 years) and with different levels of DVA-exposure. We analyzed correlational survey data from 143 parent-child dyads who were recruited on 'Amazon Mechanical Turk' (MTurk). Children's ontological conceptualization patterns of life and technology were measured by asking them to conceptualize nine prototypical org

SUBMITTER: Festerling J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9580440 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature