Child-Robot Interaction to Integrate Reflective Storytelling Into Early Childhood Creative Play

Описание: Child-Robot Interaction to Integrate Reflective Storytelling Into Early Childhood Creative Play
Layne Jackson Hubbard, Yifan Chen, Eliana Colunga, Pilyoung Kim, Tom Yeh

C&C '21: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativty & Cognition
Session: Creative Kids

Abstract
When young children create, they are exploring their emerging skills. And when young children reflect, they are transforming their learning experiences. Yet early childhood play environments often lack toys and tools to scaffold reflection. In this work, we design a stuffed animal robot to converse with young children and prompt creative reflection through open-ended storytelling. We also contribute six design goals for child-robot interaction design. In a hybrid Wizard of Oz study, 33 children ages 4-5 years old across 10 U.S. states engaged in creative play then conversed with a stuffed animal robot to tell a story about their creation. By analyzing children’s story transcripts, we discover four approaches that young children use when responding to the robot’s reflective prompting: Imaginative, Narrative Recall, Process-Oriented, and Descriptive Labeling. Across these approaches, we find that open-ended child-robot interaction can integrate personally meaningful reflective storytelling into diverse creative play practices.

WEB:: https://cc.acm.org/2021/

Pre-recorded presentation videos from the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativty & Cognition, July 22-23, 2021