Child-robot interaction in the wild: Advice to the aspiring experimenter

Raquel Ros; Marco Nalin; Rachel Wood; Paul Baxter; Rosemarijn Looije; Yannis Demiris; Tony Belpaeme; Alessio Giusti; Clara Pozzi

doi:10.1145/2070481.2070545

Child-robot interaction in the wild: Advice to the aspiring experimenter

Raquel Ros^*
, Marco Nalin
, Rachel Wood
, Paul Baxter
, Rosemarijn Looije
, Yannis Demiris
, Tony Belpaeme
, Alessio Giusti
, Clara Pozzi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We present insights gleaned from a series of child-robot interaction experiments carried out in a hospital paediatric department. Our aim here is to share good practice in experimental design and lessons learned about the implementation of systems for social HRI with child users towards application in "the wild", rather than in tightly controlled and constrained laboratory environments: a trade-off between the structures imposed by experimental design and the desire for removal of such constraints that inhibit interaction depth, and hence engagement, requires a careful balance.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Pages	335-342
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2070481.2070545
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI'11 - Alicante, Spain Duration: 14 Nov 2011 → 18 Nov 2011

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Name	ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Conference	2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI'11
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Alicante
Period	14/11/11 → 18/11/11

Keywords

child-robot interaction
experimental practice
human-robot interaction
interaction design
social robotics

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Ros, R., Nalin, M., Wood, R., Baxter, P., Looije, R., Demiris, Y., Belpaeme, T., Giusti, A., & Pozzi, C. (2011). Child-robot interaction in the wild: Advice to the aspiring experimenter. In ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 335-342). (ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction). https://doi.org/10.1145/2070481.2070545

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Child-robot interaction in the wild: Advice to the aspiring experimenter. / Ros, Raquel; Nalin, Marco; Wood, Rachel et al.
ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction. 2011. p. 335-342 (ICMI'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction).

Research output: Book chapter › Conference contribution › peer-review

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