TY - GEN
T1 - A robot in a playroom with preschool children
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
AU - Kozima, Hideki
AU - Nakagawa, Cocoro
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We present here a progress report of our ongoing observation [2] of a group of preschoolers at three to four years of age interacting with an interactive robot. We placed the robot in their playroom and tele-controlled it from a remote room. The children showed not only individual actions, such as approach to, exploration of, and interaction with the robot, but also collective social actions, where the children spontaneously and actively situate the robot in their circle of, for example, playing house. We assume that the robot's simple appearance and comprehensive behavior derived (1) caretaking behavior from the children and (2) exchanging of such behavior among children, both of which would be important in the development of interpersonal communication and in pedagogical interventions to it.
AB - We present here a progress report of our ongoing observation [2] of a group of preschoolers at three to four years of age interacting with an interactive robot. We placed the robot in their playroom and tele-controlled it from a remote room. The children showed not only individual actions, such as approach to, exploration of, and interaction with the robot, but also collective social actions, where the children spontaneously and actively situate the robot in their circle of, for example, playing house. We assume that the robot's simple appearance and comprehensive behavior derived (1) caretaking behavior from the children and (2) exchanging of such behavior among children, both of which would be important in the development of interpersonal communication and in pedagogical interventions to it.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415238
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415238
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:48749095994
SN - 1424416345
SN - 9781424416349
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 1058
EP - 1059
BT - 16th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN
Y2 - 26 August 2007 through 29 August 2007
ER -