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We present a study on the impact of unexpected robot behaviors on the perception of a robot by children and their subsequent engagement in a playful interaction based on a novel “domino” task. We propose an original analysis methodology which blends behavioral cues and reported phenomenological perceptions into a compound index.
While we found only a limited recognition of the different misbehaviors of the robot that we attribute to the age of the child participants (4–5 years old), interesting findings include a sustained engagement level, an unexpectedly low level of attribution of higher cognitive abilities and a negative correlation between anthropomorphic projections and actual behavioral engagement.
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Lemaignan, S., Fink, J., Mondada, F., Dillenbourg, P. (2015). You’re Doing It Wrong! Studying Unexpected Behaviors in Child-Robot Interaction. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_39
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