Exploring Children's Beliefs for Adoption or Rejection of Domestic Social Robots

Chiara de Jong, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kuehne, Caroline van Straten, Alex Barco

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)598-603
Number of pages6
JournalIeee Ro-man
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Aug 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) -
Duration: 8 Aug 202112 Aug 2021

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