Honorable-mention HRI 2024 paper by Dr. Omer Gvirsman and Prof. Goren Gordonš
In this Honorable-mention HRI 2024 paper, we focused on how to involve parents in a triadic parent-toddler-robot interaction, where the goal is to promote better parent-toddler interaction by varying the robot's behaviors and roles. We thus developed two games, one with two levels of robot scaffolding, and another with either structured or unstructured design. We then explored, in two studies, how a social robot's assigned role and behaviors influence the engagement of parents and toddlers with the robot and their interaction with each other. Our results show that parents affectively scaffolded their children less when the robot increased its scaffolding behaviors and that parents provided more scaffolding in a structured game with the robot, whereas in an unstructured game the dyad exhibited more cooperation in which children exhibited more independence. These findings can contribute to a better understanding of interaction design, triadic dynamics, and the role of the robot in parent-toddler-robot scenario.
Gvirsman, O. and Gordon, G., Ā Effect of Social Robot's Role and Behavior on Parent-Toddler Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24).
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