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This paper explores three fundamental attributes of the Robokind Zeno-R25 (its status as person or machine, its ‘gender’, and intensity of its simulated facial expressions) and their impact on children’s perceptions of the robot, using a one-sample study design. Results from a sample of 37 children indicate that the robot is perceived as being a mix of person and machine, but also strongly as a male figure. Children could label emotions of the robot’s simulated facial-expressions but perceived intensities of these expressions varied. The findings demonstrate the importance of establishing fundamentals in user views towards social robots in supporting advanced arguments of social human-robot interaction.
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These - or related - fundamentals could apply beyond the Zeno R-25 case-study to other humanoids or even non-humanoid social-robots.
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This work was supported by European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2013-10) under grant agreement no. 611971.
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Cameron, D. et al. (2016). Congratulations, It’s a Boy! Bench-Marking Children’s Perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25. In: Alboul, L., Damian, D., Aitken, J. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9716. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_4
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