TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Children's Beliefs for Adoption or Rejection of Domestic Social Robots
AU - de Jong, Chiara
AU - Peter, Jochen
AU - Kuehne, Rinaldo
AU - van Straten, Caroline
AU - Barco, Alex
PY - 2021/8/23
Y1 - 2021/8/23
N2 - With social robots entering the consumer market, there is a growing need to study child-robot interaction in a domestic environment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore children's beliefs that underlie their intended adoption or rejection of a social robot for use in their homes. Based on a content analysis of data from 87 children, we found that hedonic beliefs (i.e., the belief that having a robot at home is pleasurable) were the most mentioned beliefs for domestic adoption of a social robot. More specifically, companionship was an often-mentioned hedonic belief. Social beliefs were rarely mentioned. If children mentioned beliefs for rejecting the robot, they often referred to family members and family composition. The findings of this exploratory study thus suggest that children's hedonic beliefs play a central role in their intended adoption of a social robot in a domestic environment.
AB - With social robots entering the consumer market, there is a growing need to study child-robot interaction in a domestic environment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore children's beliefs that underlie their intended adoption or rejection of a social robot for use in their homes. Based on a content analysis of data from 87 children, we found that hedonic beliefs (i.e., the belief that having a robot at home is pleasurable) were the most mentioned beliefs for domestic adoption of a social robot. More specifically, companionship was an often-mentioned hedonic belief. Social beliefs were rarely mentioned. If children mentioned beliefs for rejecting the robot, they often referred to family members and family composition. The findings of this exploratory study thus suggest that children's hedonic beliefs play a central role in their intended adoption of a social robot in a domestic environment.
UR - https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=eur_pure&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000709817200087&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS
U2 - 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515438
DO - 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515438
M3 - Conference article
SP - 598
EP - 603
JO - Ieee Ro-man
JF - Ieee Ro-man
T2 - 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Y2 - 8 August 2021 through 12 August 2021
ER -