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Erschienen in: International Journal of Social Robotics 5/2016

01.11.2016

A Motivational Approach to Support Healthy Habits in Long-term Child–Robot Interaction

verfasst von: Raquel Ros, Elettra Oleari, Clara Pozzi, Francesca Sacchitelli, Daniele Baranzini, Anahita Bagherzadhalimi, Alberto Sanna, Yiannis Demiris

Erschienen in: International Journal of Social Robotics | Ausgabe 5/2016

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Abstract

We examine the use of role-switching as an intrinsic motivational mechanism to increase engagement in long-term child–robot interaction. The present study describes a learning framework where children between 9 and 11-years-old interact with a robot to improve their knowledge and habits with regards to healthy life-styles. Experiments were carried out in Italy where 41 children were divided in three groups interacting with: (i) a robot with a role-switching mechanism, (ii) a robot without a role-switching mechanism and (iii) an interactive video. Additionally, a control group composed of 43 more children, who were not exposed to any interactive approach, was used as a baseline of the study. During the intervention period, the three groups were exposed to three interactive sessions once a week. The aim of the study was to find any difference in healthy-habits acquisition based on alternative interactive systems, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the role-switch approach as a trigger for engagement and motivation while interacting with a robot. The results provide evidence that the rate of children adopting healthy habits during the intervention period was higher for those interacting with a robot. Moreover, alignment with the robot behaviour and achievement of higher engagement levels were also observed for those children interacting with the robot that used the role-switching mechanism. This supports the notion that role-switching facilitates sustained long-interactions between a child and a robot.

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This condition is analogous to the Without Role Switching condition, with the difference that children interact with a video instead of a robot.
 
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We were informed by the teachers that, during the period in which the study took place, no explicit references to healthy habits were addressed in the involved classes. Therefore, if any information on this topic was provided to children, it had to be out of school lessons/activities.
 
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A pictorial representation of a 1–5 Likert scale through which respondents identify their answers, feelings or opinions [27].
 
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Children in the video condition (V) did not filled in these questions.
 
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Few differences between annotations were found, and these were mainly due to human error, i.e. missing an observable behaviour, rather than disagreement on the classification of the behaviour.
 
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As already mentioned in the study design, teachers confirmed that children were not having any lessons regarding healthy life styles during the study period.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Motivational Approach to Support Healthy Habits in Long-term Child–Robot Interaction
verfasst von
Raquel Ros
Elettra Oleari
Clara Pozzi
Francesca Sacchitelli
Daniele Baranzini
Anahita Bagherzadhalimi
Alberto Sanna
Yiannis Demiris
Publikationsdatum
01.11.2016
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
International Journal of Social Robotics / Ausgabe 5/2016
Print ISSN: 1875-4791
Elektronische ISSN: 1875-4805
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0356-9

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