Is a robot better than video for initiating remote social connections among children?

Authors:
Nuri Kim;Jeonghye Han;Wendy Ju
Affiliations:
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA;Cheongju National University of Education, Cheongju, South Korea;Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Year:
2014

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Abstract

To investigate how children interact differently when interactions are mediated with screen-based video communication versus a robot-mediated communication, we conducted a study with elementary students in Korea, comparing the use of both technologies to introduce classroom students with peer-aged individuals in America. Our findings show that the classroom children showed more positive emotion during certain tasks and exhibited more interest to remote participants in the context of robot-mediated communication than with video-mediated communication.