Child-robot theater: Engaging elementary students in informal STEAM education using robots

J Barnes, SM FakhrHosseini, E Vasey… - IEEE Pervasive …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the options to make science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
more accessible, especially for children, is to integrate STEM content into more attractive …

" That Robot Played with Us!" Children's Perceptions of a Robot after a Child-Robot Group Interaction

M Escobar-Planas, V Charisi, E Gomez - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The design of child-centred, intelligent and collaborative robots is a challenging endeavour,
which requires to understand how the implemented robot behaviours and collaboration …

Now we're talking: Learning by explaining your reasoning to a social robot

FM Wijnen, DP Davison, D Reidsma, JVD Meij… - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This article presents a study in which we explored the effect of a social robot on the
explanatory behavior of children (aged 6--10) while working on an inquiry learning task. In a …

The near future of children's robotics

V Charisi, AM Alcorn, J Kennedy, W Johal… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Robotics is a multidisciplinary and highly innovative field. Recently, multiple and often
minimally connected sub-communities of child-robot interaction have started to emerge …

A Spectrum of Perceived Sociality: A Dynamical and Enactive Centering of Interactions Between Children and Robots

L Levinson, E McGraw, R Gomez… - Social Robots with AI …, 2025 - ebooks.iospress.nl
In the following work, we introduce the mathematical and theoretical underpinnings of
dynamical systems theory and enactivism and extend them to child-robot interaction. We …

Learning from unstructured child-robot interactions

EC Collins, D Cameron - 30th IEEE International …, 2021 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
This reflective piece highlights some unexpected outcomes observed during selected Child-
Robot Interaction (CRI) studies. As these were peripheral to the investigations underway …