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Gotta Hatch 'em All!: Robot-Supported Cooperation in Interactive Playgrounds

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Cristina Zaga,

Alejandro Moreno,

Vanessa EversAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 347 - 350

https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026355

Published: 25 February 2017 Publication History

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In this paper, we present ongoing research combining two technologies to support children's cooperative interaction: interactive playgrounds and robots. We propose that interactive playgrounds are vehicles for playful cooperation when robots are integrated into the system as cooperative co-players. We developed the Hatch 'em all game, wherein children are encouraged to hatch eggs cooperatively with a robot, and tested the effect of the robot's cooperative behavior on the children. We found that when the robot played cooperatively, children cooperated and helped the robot more than when the robot played selfishly. Our findings suggest that the social affordances of the playground, together with the social interactions between the children and the robot, enabled instances of team cooperation and prosocial behavior. Our work contributes to the CSCW community by opening a novel avenue for supporting children's cooperation, which could serve as a future testbed to investigate the role of robots in cooperative interaction

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Gotta Hatch 'em All!: Robot-Supported Cooperation in Interactive Playgrounds
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing

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CSCW '17 Companion: Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

February 2017

472 pages

ISBN:9781450346887

DOI:10.1145/3022198

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Jung YJung GJeong SKim CWoo WHong HLee U(2023)"Enjoy, but Moderately!": Designing a Social Companion Robot for Social Engagement and Behavior Moderation in Solitary Drinking ContextProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/36100287:CSCW2(1-24)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3610028
Zonca JFolsø ASciutti A(2023)Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and ComputersInternational Journal of Social Robotics10.1007/s12369-022-00959-x15:2(249-268)Online publication date: 11-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00959-x
Erel HCarsenti EZuckerman OSakamoto DWeiss AHiatt LShiomi M(2022)A Carryover Effect in HRIProceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction10.5555/3523760.3523807(342-352)Online publication date: 7-Mar-2022
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