Edited by Alessandra Rossi, Kheng Lee Koay, Silvia Moros, Patrick Holthaus and Marcus Scheunemann
[Interaction Studies 20:3] 2019
► pp. 393–425
Children’s acceptance of social robots
A narrative review of the research 2000–2017
Social robots progressively enter children’s lives, but little is known about children’s acceptance of social robots and its antecedents. To fill this research gap, this narrative review surveyed 34 articles on child-robot interaction published between 2000 and 2017. We focused on robot, user, and interaction characteristics as potential antecedents of children’s intentional and behavioral social robot acceptance. In general, children readily accept robots. However, we found that social, adaptive robot behavior, children’s sex and age, as well as frequency of the interaction seem to affect acceptance. Additionally, we found various theoretical and methodological shortcomings in the field. The review concludes with recommendations and directions for future research on children’s acceptance of social robots.
Article outline
- Antecedents of robot acceptance
- Characteristics of the robot
- Characteristics of the user
- Characteristics of the interaction
- Interactions between antecedents
- Methodological characteristics
- General methodological characteristics
- CRI-specific methodological characteristics
- Method
- Results
- The effect of robot characteristics on acceptance
- The effect of user characteristics on acceptance
- The effect of interaction characteristics on acceptance
- Interactions between antecedents
- Methodological characteristics
- Discussion
- Antecedents of children’s social robot acceptance
- Interaction between antecedents
- The influence of methodological characteristics
- Conclusion and future directions
- Acknowledgments
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References
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18071.jon
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