A comparison of kindergarten storytelling by human and humanoid robot with different social behavior

CONTI, Daniela, DI NUOVO, Alessandro, CIRASA, Carla and DI NUOVO, Santo (2017). A comparison of kindergarten storytelling by human and humanoid robot with different social behavior. In: HRI '17. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '17. New York, ACM, 97-98.

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a study on the influence of different social behavior on preschool children's perception of stories narrated either by a humanoid robot or by a human teacher. Four conditions were considered: static human, static robot, expressive human and expressive robot. Two stories, with knowledge and emotional content, were narrated in two different encounters. After each story, children draw what they remember of the story. We examined drawings of 81 children to study whether the sociability of the teacher (robot or human) could influence elements and details recorded. Results suggest a positive effect of the expressive behavior in robot storytelling, whose efficacy is comparable to the human with the same behavior or better if the expressive robot is compared with a static inexpressive human.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Poster originally presented at HRI 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Vienna, Austria, 6-9 March
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Modelling Research Centre > Microsystems and Machine Vision Laboratory
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Computing
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3038359
Page Range: 97-98
Depositing User: Alessandro Di Nuovo
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2017 15:08
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 16:08
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15388

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