Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 28, 2023 - July 01, 2023
Children change their behavior based on their perceptions of robots. In recent years, robots have become more accessible and children have had more opportunities to interact with them. It is not known what kind of robots children consider social. Therefore, we investigated children's perception of sociality toward robots. In the experiment, we designed a behavior expressing sociability with an arm robot, and subjects watched three videos and answered a questionnaire. The videos consisted of a robot in which a person manually moved the robot, a robot with only simple movements, and a robot using the designed behavior. The results showed that adults perceived the designed behavior as social. However, children were found to perceive sociality from their interactions with people, not from their behaviors.
