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"I'm Scared": Little Children Reject Robots

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HAI '16: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2974804.2980493

Published: 04 October 2016 Publication History

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Social robots are used for interacting with children. Their novelty often stimulates the interest of children and encourages such interaction as playing with them. However, some children do not interact with such robots and instead strongly reject interaction with them. Understanding such rejection behaviors of children has important design implications for social robots that are supposed to interact with children. For this purpose, we investigated what kinds of rejection behaviors appeared in different kinds of robots in a play room environment.

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HAI '16: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

October 2016

414 pages

ISBN:9781450345088

DOI:10.1145/2974804

General Chairs:
Wei Yun Yau
A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
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Takashi Omori
Tamagawa University, Japan
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Program Chairs:
Giorgio Metta
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
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Hirotaka Osawa
University of Tsukuba, Japan
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Shengdong Zhao
National University of Singapore, Singapore

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