The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places
All robots are not created equal: the design and perception of humanoid robot heads
DIS '02 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
Similarity effects in human-computer interaction: effects of user personality, computer personality, and user control on attraction and attributions of responsibility
The art of designing robot faces: dimensions for human-robot interaction
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART conference on Human-robot interaction
Exploring the design space of robots: Children's perspectives
Interacting with Computers
Sensitivity to the proportions of faces that vary in human likeness
Computers in Human Behavior
Social facilitation and human-computer interaction
Computers in Human Behavior
Introduction to this special issue on human-robot interaction
Human-Computer Interaction
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
A theoretical model for trust in automated systems
CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pre-school children's first encounter with a robot
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
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This study addresses the attitudes of children toward robots displaying various degrees of anthropomorphic appearance. Understanding the means by which children perceive and evaluate robots across the spectrum of anthropomorphism is a crucial issue within the field of robotics research. This study conducted two experiments to understand children's attitudes toward robots with various degrees of realism and examine whether gender or age influences the social and physical attraction children feel toward humanoid robots. The results of the study suggest that when designing robots for children, designers need not focus on creating an authentic human-like appearance. In addition, the influence of children's age on their attitudes toward robots is less significant than that of gender. Generally, children aged from 8 to 14 years have similar attitudes to and perceptions of humanoid robots. An interesting finding is the persistent differences between boys and girls, with respect to the ratings of their social and physical attraction to robots. Particularly, girls are more accepting of human-like robots, especially female robots, than boys are.