[HTML][HTML] A survey on the design and evolution of social robots—Past, present and future

H Mahdi, SA Akgun, S Saleh, K Dautenhahn - Robotics and Autonomous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the relatively young age of Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) as a field, there is a
large volume of research on advances in robot hardware, software and behavior. The goal …

[HTML][HTML] Child–Computer Interaction: From a systematic review towards an integrated understanding of interaction design methods for children

FK Lehnert, J Niess, C Lallemand… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Child–Computer Interaction (CCI) is a steadily growing field that focuses on
children as a prominent and emergent user group. For more than twenty years, the …

A long-term study of young children's rapport, social emulation, and language learning with a peer-like robot playmate in preschool

JM Kory-Westlund, C Breazeal - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Prior research has demonstrated the importance of children's peers for their learning and
development. In particular, peer interaction, especially with more advanced peers, can …

What are you talking to?: Understanding children's perceptions of conversational agents

Y Xu, M Warschauer - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Conversational agents (CAs) available in smart phones or smart speakers play an
increasingly important role in young children's technological landscapes and life worlds …

A toy or a friend? children's anthropomorphic beliefs about robots and how these relate to second‐language word learning

R Van den Berghe, M de Haas… - Journal of Computer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the degree to which children anthropomorphize a robot tutor and
whether this anthropomorphism relates to their vocabulary learning in a second‐language …

Exploring the effects of a social robot's speech entrainment and backstory on young children's emotion, rapport, relationship, and learning

JM Kory-Westlund, C Breazeal - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In positive human-human relationships, people frequently mirror or mimic each other's
behavior. This mimicry, also called entrainment, is associated with rapport and smoother …

'Don't make assumptions about me!': Understanding Children's Perception of Datafication Online

G Wang, J Zhao, M Van Kleek, N Shadbolt - Proceedings of the ACM on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Datafication, which is the process in which children's actions online are pervasively
recorded, tracked, aggregated, analysed, and exploited by online services in multiple ways …

Social robots in therapy and care

CA Cifuentes, MJ Pinto, N Céspedes… - Current Robotics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This work presents a comprehensive overview of social robots
in therapy and the healthcare of children, adults, and elderly populations. According to …

Alexa, what are you? Exploring primary school children's ontological perceptions of digital voice assistants in open interactions

J Festerling, I Siraj - Human Development, 2020 - karger.com
Today's children grow up in an environment that is increasingly characterized by digital
voice assistants (DVAs), such as Alexa, Siri, or the Google Assistant. This paper argues that …

British children's and adults' perceptions of robots

ERR Burdett, S Ikari… - Human Behavior and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming a familiar part of
different aspects of everyday life. We know very little about how children and adults perceive …