TY - GEN
T1 - Patricc
T2 - 15th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, HRI 2020
AU - Gvirsman, Omer
AU - Koren, Yaacov
AU - Norman, Tal
AU - Gordon, Goren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2020/3/9
Y1 - 2020/3/9
N2 - While social robots for education are slowly being integrated in many scenarios, ranging from higher-education, through elementary school and kindergarten, the use case of robots for toddlers in their homes has not gained much attention. In this contribution, we introduce Patricc, a robotic platform that is specifically designed for toddler-parent-robot triadic interaction. It addresses the unique challenges of this age group, namely, desire for continuous physical interaction and novelty. Patricc's unique design enables changing characters by using dress-able puppets over a 3D-printed skeleton and the use of physical props. A novel authoring tool enables robot behavior and content creation by non-programmers.We conducted an evaluation study with 18 parent-toddler pairs and compared Patricc to similar tablet-based interactions. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses show that Patricc promotes significantly more triadic interaction, measured by video-coded gaze, compared to the tablet and that parents indeed perceive the interaction as triadic. Furthermore, there was no novelty-induced significant change in task-oriented behaviors, when toddlers interacted with two different characters consecutively. Finally, parents pointed out the benefits of changeable puppet-like characters over tablets and the appropriateness of the platform for the target age-group. These results suggest that Patricc can serve as the first gateway of toddlers to the emerging world of social robots.
AB - While social robots for education are slowly being integrated in many scenarios, ranging from higher-education, through elementary school and kindergarten, the use case of robots for toddlers in their homes has not gained much attention. In this contribution, we introduce Patricc, a robotic platform that is specifically designed for toddler-parent-robot triadic interaction. It addresses the unique challenges of this age group, namely, desire for continuous physical interaction and novelty. Patricc's unique design enables changing characters by using dress-able puppets over a 3D-printed skeleton and the use of physical props. A novel authoring tool enables robot behavior and content creation by non-programmers.We conducted an evaluation study with 18 parent-toddler pairs and compared Patricc to similar tablet-based interactions. Our quantitative and qualitative analyses show that Patricc promotes significantly more triadic interaction, measured by video-coded gaze, compared to the tablet and that parents indeed perceive the interaction as triadic. Furthermore, there was no novelty-induced significant change in task-oriented behaviors, when toddlers interacted with two different characters consecutively. Finally, parents pointed out the benefits of changeable puppet-like characters over tablets and the appropriateness of the platform for the target age-group. These results suggest that Patricc can serve as the first gateway of toddlers to the emerging world of social robots.
KW - English as Second Language
KW - Parent child robot
KW - Toddler robot interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082025632&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3319502.3374792
DO - 10.1145/3319502.3374792
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AN - SCOPUS:85082025632
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 399
EP - 407
BT - HRI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 23 March 2020 through 26 March 2020
ER -