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Interactive Robots as Facilitators of Childrens Social Development

出版	INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2006
主題	Technology & Engineering / Automation
ISBN	38661131459783866113145
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=t8bfoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋6.1 Children's Understanding of the Robots We saw in Section 4 that children changed their ontological understanding of Infanoid as the interaction unfolded and of Keepon as they grew older: first as a "moving thing", then as an "autonomous system" to explore, and finally as a "social agent" to play with. Interestingly, children generally showed a great deal of anxiety and embarrassment towards Infanoid at first; however, with Keepon, they spontaneously approached it and started "tasting" its texture and motion, and gradually entered into an explorative and social interaction with the robot. What created this difference between Infanoid and Keepon? We assume that the children first recognize the motions of the arms, hands, eyes, etc., separately. Each part of the robotic body emits rich information in its motion; however, it is difficult for children to recognize the gestalt of the entirety of these moving parts. The gestalt would be "autonomy", "life", or the sense that the robot perceives and acts in the world as we do. In case of Infanoid, the children had a difficulty in comprehending the gestalt, which requires (1) effortful analysis of the meanings of each moving part and (2) an effortful integration of the meaning into a coherent "unity" that all autonomous life would have. Meanwhile, Keepon is completely different from humans in terms of its appearance (form), but the simplicity of being able to express only attention and simple emotions, combined with the life-like softness of the body, would enable the children and infants to intuitively understand the gestalt (Fig. 15).