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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Effect of a Robot’s Social Character on Children’s Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor
verfasst von : Cristina Zaga, Manja Lohse, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers
Erschienen in: Social Robotics
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An increasing number of applications for social robots focuses on learning and playing with children. One of the unanswered questions is what kind of social character a robot should have in order to positively engage children in a task. In this paper, we present a study on the effect of two different social characters of a robot (peer vs. tutor) on children’s task engagement. We derived peer and tutor robot behaviors from the literature and we evaluated the two robot characters in a WoZ study where 10 pairs of children aged 6 to 9 played Tangram puzzles with a Nao robot. Our results show that in the peer character condition, children paid attention to the robot and the task for a longer period of time and solved the puzzles quicker and better than in the tutor character condition.