Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children

By Peter H. Kahn Jr., Batya Friedman, Deanne R. Perez-Granados, Nathan G. Freier. CHI EA '04, 2004

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Subfields: Genetics, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Granny and the robots: ethical issues in robot care for the elderly (2012, background): “Kahn et al. (2006) suggest that a new technological genre of autonomous, adaptive, personified and embodied artefacts is emerging that the English language is not well-equipped to handle.”
Robotic Pets in Human Lives: Implications for the Human–Animal Bond and for Human Relationships with Personified Technologies (2009, background): “” Indeed, an even stronger proposition is that this technological genre will emerge as a new ontological category (Kahn et al., 2006).”
"Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?": Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction (2017, background): “He also saw that age and prior experience with technology led to more thoughtful reasonings about robots’ nature [3].”
What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? (2005, methodology): “[10] using unstructured play sessions for children and online discussion forums for adults, demonstrated that AIBO was psychologically engaging for both adults and children in terms of life-like essences, mental states and social rapports.”
DeepCham: Collaborative Edge-Mediated Adaptive Deep Learning for Mobile Object Recognition (2016, background): “I. INTRODUCTION Contemporary mobile devices (e.g., smartphones, mobile robots) equipped with capable cameras and powerful processors enable many exciting mobile computer vision applications such as augmented reality [19], [39], [26], [27], home robotics [22][21] etc.”
Robots at home: Understanding long-term human-robot interaction (2008, background): “thesis and subsequent work [1]); human perceptions of various portions of a robot’s appearance, personality, and behaviors (work in Dautenhahn’s lab [2] or Carnegie Mellon University’s HCII group [3], for example); or short-term interactions in laboratory-based settings (such as previous work we car”
What is AI Literacy? Competencies and Design Considerations (2020, background): “Early experiences with technology can improve children’s perceptions of agent intelligence [80], and lack of prior experience can inhibit children’s ability to accurately assess what types of problems a computer can solve [135].”
"My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances (2007, background): “Studies have shown that Sony’s entertainment AIBO—with its dog-like form and AI-based software—did encourage intimacy, particularly among children who treated the robotic dog like a pet (more so than traditional stuffed toys) [12,19,23].”
"Robovie, you'll have to go into the closet now": children's social and moral relationships with a humanoid robot. (2012, methodology): “Drawing from previous coding systems of people interacting with and reasoning about the robot dog AIBO (Kahn et al., 2006), we developed a new behavioral and reasoning coding system for this data set.”
Exploring influencing variables for the acceptance of social robots (2013, background): “Indeed, research shows that people also tend to ascribe human-like properties, characters, or mental states to social robots [34,35].”