Children and social robots: An integrative framework

Project Information

CHILDROBOT

Grant agreement ID: 682733

DOI 10.3030/682733

Project closed

EC signature date 3 June 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 31 December 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 012,00

EU contribution € 1 999 012,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Transparent robots: How children perceive and relate to a social robot that acknowledges its lack of human psychological capacities and machine status

Author(s): Caroline L. van Straten, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne
Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2023, Page(s) 103063, ISSN 1071-5819
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2023.103063

The wizard and I: How transparent teleoperation and self-description (do not) affect children’s robot perceptions and child-robot relationship formation.

Author(s): Van Straten, C. L., Peter, J., Kühne, R., & Barco, A.
Published in: AI & SOCIETY, Issue 37, 2021, Page(s) 383–399, ISSN 0951-5666
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01202-3

Anthropomorphism in human–robot interactions: A multidimensional conceptualization

Author(s): Rinaldo Kühne, Jochen Peter
Published in: Communication Theory, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 42-52, ISSN 1468-2885
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ct/qtac020

Intentional acceptance of social robots: Development and validation of a self-report measure for children.

Author(s): De Jong, C., Kühne, R., Peter, J., van Straten, C. L., & Barco, A.
Published in: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Issue 139, 2020, Page(s) 102426, ISSN 1071-5819
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102426

Children’s Intention to Adopt Social Robots: A Model of its Distal and Proximal Predictors

Author(s): Chiara de Jong; Jochen Peter; Rinaldo Kühne; Alex Barco
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-021-00835-0

Can social robots affect children's prosocial behavior? An experimental study on prosocial robot models

Author(s): Jochen Peter; Rinaldo Kühne; Alex Barco
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue Vol. 120, 2021, Page(s) 106712, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106712

On sharing and caring: Investigating the effects of a robot's self-disclosure and question- asking on children's robot perceptions and child-robot relationship formation

Author(s): Caroline L. van Straten; Jochen Peter; Rinaldo Kühne; Alex Barco
Published in: Computers in Human Behavior, Issue Vol. 129, 2022, Page(s) 107135, ISSN 0747-5632
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.107135

Children’s acceptance of social robots: A narrative review of the research 2000–2017

Author(s): De Jong, C., Peter, J., Kühne, R., & Barco, A.
Published in: Interaction Studies, Issue 20, 2019, Page(s) 392-425, ISSN 1572-0373
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/is.18071.jon

Child–Robot Relationship Formation: A Narrative Review of Empirical Research

Author(s): Caroline L. van Straten, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne
Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics, 2017, ISSN 1875-4791
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-019-00569-0

Closeness, trust, and perceived social support in child-robot relationship formation: Development and validation of three self-report scales.

Author(s): Van Straten, C. L., Kühne, R., Peter, J., Jong, C. de, & Barco, A.
Published in: Interaction Studies, Issue 21, 2020, Page(s) 57-84, ISSN 1572-0373
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
DOI: 10.1075/is.18052.str

Transparency about a robot’s lack of human psychological capacities: Effects on child-robot perception and relationship formation.

Author(s): Van Straten, C. L., Peter, J., Kühne, R., & Barco, A.
Published in: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Issue 9, 2020, Page(s) 11:1-11:22, ISSN 2573-9522
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3365668

Conference proceedings (6)

Exploring children’s beliefs for adoption or rejection of domestic social robots

Author(s): De Jong, C., Peter, J., Kühne, R., van Straten, C., & Barco, A.
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021, Page(s) 598-603
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man50785.2021.9515438

Current technical and practical impediments to research on social robots

Author(s): Barco, Alex; Straten, Caroline Van; Jong, Chiara De; Peter, Jochen; Kühne, Rinaldo
Published in: New friends: The 3rd international conference on social robots in therapy and education, Issue June 17-29, 2018, 2018, Page(s) 19-20
Publisher: New Friends Association
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3384042

What do children want from a social robot? Toward gratifications measures for child-robot interaction.

Author(s): De Jong, C., Kühne, R., Peter, J., Van Straten, C.L., and Barco, A.
Published in: Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication., 2019, Page(s) 1-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956319

Technological and Interpersonal Trust in Child-Robot Interaction - An Exploratory Study

Author(s): Caroline L. van Straten, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne, Chiara de Jong, Alex Barco
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction - HAI '18, 2018, Page(s) 253-259, ISBN 9781-450359535
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3284432.3284440

Children and social robots: Inventory of measures for CRI research

Author(s): Chiara de Jong, Caroline van Straten, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kuhne, Alex Barco
Published in: 2018 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), 2018, Page(s) 44-45, ISBN 978-1-5386-8037-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/arso.2018.8625764

Robot Morphology and Children’s Perception of Social Robots: An Exploratory Study

Author(s): Barco, A., de Jong, C., Peter, J., Kühne, R., & van Straten, C. L.
Published in: HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Issue March 23-26, 2020, 2020, Page(s) 125-127, ISBN 978-1-4503-7057-8
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3378348

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Children and social robots: Towards a better understanding of their acceptance of a new technology

Author(s): Chiara de Jong
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9789493270718
Publisher: University of Amsterdam

The next best friend? How children perceive and relate to a social robot.

Author(s): Caroline L. van Straten
Published in: 2021
Publisher: University of Amsterdam

Book chapters (4)

Social robots and children

Author(s): Jochen Peter
Published in: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media (2nd edition), 2022, ISBN 9780367633356
Publisher: Routledge

New communication technologies and young people: The case of social robots.

Author(s): Peter, Jochen
Published in: Youth and media. Current perspectives on media use and effects (ed. by R. Kühne, S. E. Baumgartner, T. Koch, & M. Hofer ), 2017, Page(s) 203-217
Publisher: Nomos

Asking today the crucial questions of tomorrow: Social robots and the Internet of Toys.

Author(s): Peter, J., Kühne, R., Barco, A., de Jong, C., van Straten, C. L.
Published in: The Internet of Toys: Practices, affordances and the political economy of children’s smart play., 2019, Page(s) 25-46
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature)

Human social relationships with robots.

Author(s): De Graaf, M., Peter, J.
Published in: The Sage handbook of human–machine communication, 2023, Page(s) 435-442
Publisher: Sage

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

The New Frontier in Communication Research: Why We Should Study Social Robots

Author(s): Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne
Published in: Media and Communication, Issue 6/3, 2018, Page(s) 73, ISSN 2183-2439
Publisher: Cogitatio
DOI: 10.17645/mac.v6i3.1596