2nd workshop on evaluating Child-Robot Interaction
Cristina Zaga, Manja Lohse, Vicky Charisi, Vanessa Evers, Marc Neerincx, Takayuki Kanda, Iolanda Leite · 2016
Many researchers have started to explore natural interaction scenarios for children. No matter if these children are normally developing or have special needs, evaluating Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) is a challenge. To find methods that work well and provide reliable data is difficult, for example because commonly used methods such as questionnaires do not work well particularly with younger children. Previous research has shown that children need support in expressing how they feel about technology. Given this, researchers often choose time-consuming behavioral measures from observations to evaluate CRI. However, these are not necessarily comparable between studies and robots.