RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, ROBOT DESIGN AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMAGES TOWARDS ROBOT
A psychological qualitative analysis of children's drawings of robot
2021 年 5 巻 2 号 p. 2_11-2_20
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2021 年 5 巻 2 号 p. 2_11-2_20
This study employs the robot PaPeRo, produced by the NEC corporation, to investigate the effect of robot-human interaction and robot design on children's (3–10 years old) perceptions of robots. Projective drawing analysis was employed, whereby children were asked to draw a picture titled "robot and I" both before and after interacting with PaPeRo. The changes between the two pictures were then analyzed. The results show that children under seven years old were more affected by their experience with PaPeRo than children over seven years old. Although children over seven years old also tended to exhibit positive changes in their pictures after robot interaction, the number of pictures that did not show positive changes increased with age. Video recordings of the children's interactions with PaPeRo indicated that the children projected their thoughts and feelings onto the robot. It is considered that these results reflect the unique design of PaPeRo.
