Co-creation as a facilitator for Co-regulation in child-robot interaction

Mike E.U. Ligthart; Mark A. Neerincx; Koen V. Hindriks

doi:10.1145/3434074.3447180

Co-creation as a facilitator for Co-regulation in child-robot interaction

Mike E.U. Ligthart, Mark A. Neerincx, Koen V. Hindriks

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Abstract

While interacting with a social robot, children have a need to express themselves and have their expressions acknowledged by the robot. A need that is often unaddressed by the robot, due to its limitations in understanding the expressions of children. To keep the child-robot interaction manageable the robot takes control, undermining children's ability to co-regulate the interaction. Co-regulation is important for having a fulfilling social interaction. We developed a co-creation activity that aims to facilitate more co-regulation. Children are enabled to create sound effects, gestures, and light shows for the robot to use during their conversation. Results from a user study (N = 59 school children, 7-11 y.o.) showed that the co-creation activity successfully facilitated co-regulation by improving children's agency. Co-creation furthermore increases children's acceptance of the robot.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '21 Companion
Subtitle of host publication	Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	298-302
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450382908
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447180
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021
Event	2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 8 Mar 2021 → 11 Mar 2021

Publication series

Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

Conference

Conference	2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2021
Country	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/03/21 → 11/03/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is part of the Hero project and is supported by the research program ‘Technology for Oncology’ (grand number 15198), which is financed by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijd-ing), the TKI Life Sciences & Health, ASolutions, the Cancer Health Coach, and Wintertuin Literary Agency. The research consortium consists of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, Princess Máxima Center, Centrum Wiskunde & In-formatica (CWI), and the University Medical Centers Amsterdam UMC.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

Child-robot interaction
Co-creation
Co-regulation
User-study

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Ligthart, M. E. U., Neerincx, M. A., & Hindriks, K. V. (2021). Co-creation as a facilitator for Co-regulation in child-robot interaction. In HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 298-302). [3447180] (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447180

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Co-creation as a facilitator for Co-regulation in child-robot interaction. / Ligthart, Mike E.U.; Neerincx, Mark A.; Hindriks, Koen V.

HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. p. 298-302 3447180 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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Ligthart MEU, Neerincx MA, Hindriks KV. Co-creation as a facilitator for Co-regulation in child-robot interaction. In HRI '21 Companion: Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society. 2021. p. 298-302. 3447180. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447180