Abstract:
Social robots have, in the case of children, rarely been studied from a uses-and-gratifications perspective. As social robots differ from more traditional media, the firs...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Social robots have, in the case of children, rarely been studied from a uses-and-gratifications perspective. As social robots differ from more traditional media, the first aim of this study was to explore the gratifications that children seek and obtain from social robots. This was investigated in a study among 87 children. The second aim was to develop and initially validate measures for those gratifications. We studied this among a sample of 24 children. The measures for hedonic and social gratifications-obtained worked reasonably well. The measures for hedonic and informative gratifications-sought seemed problematic, whereas the others were acceptable. Our measures present a first step toward enabling future research on children's gratifications of social robots.
Published in: 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Date of Conference: 14-18 October 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 13 January 2020
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