Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents

Eloise Zehnder; Melanie Jouaiti; François Charpillet

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_5

Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents

Eloise Zehnder^*, Melanie Jouaiti, François Charpillet

^*Corresponding author for this work

Computer Science

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Abstract

Acceptance is an important ergonomic matter for an effective use of technologies, especially in the case of assistive robots. Work on acceptance with children with autistic spectrum disorder, including their parents, is still lacking. Therefore, this study aims at evaluating robots’ acceptance with parents and children with and without autistic spectrum disorder. We proceeded by evaluating acceptance and anthropomorphism before and after a free interaction with the Pepper robot, for neurotypical children (N = 13) and children with autism (N = 5) and their parents. Preliminary results indicate that acceptance metrics showed a rather positive appreciation of the robot by the children but less positive for their parents. Limitations and recommendations are proposed at the end of the study.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Robotics
Subtitle of host publication	14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II
Editors	Filippo Cavallo, John-John Cabibihan, Laura Fiorini, Alessandra Sorrentino, Hongsheng He, Xiaorui Liu, Yoshio Matsumoto, Shuzhi Sam Ge
Publisher	Springer
Pages	45-53
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031246708
ISBN (Print)	9783031246692
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_5
Publication status	Published - 2 Feb 2023
Event	14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022 - Florence, Italy Duration: 13 Dec 2022 → 16 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13818 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	13/12/22 → 16/12/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank all the children and parents who willingly took part in this study and filled in so many questionnaires.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Zehnder, E., Jouaiti, M., & Charpillet, F. (2023). Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents. In F. Cavallo, J.-J. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, Y. Matsumoto, & S. S. Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 45-53). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13818 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_5

Zehnder, Eloise ; Jouaiti, Melanie ; Charpillet, François. / Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents. Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. editor / Filippo Cavallo ; John-John Cabibihan ; Laura Fiorini ; Alessandra Sorrentino ; Hongsheng He ; Xiaorui Liu ; Yoshio Matsumoto ; Shuzhi Sam Ge. Springer, 2023. pp. 45-53 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Zehnder, E, Jouaiti, M & Charpillet, F 2023, Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents. in F Cavallo, J-J Cabibihan, L Fiorini, A Sorrentino, H He, X Liu, Y Matsumoto & SS Ge (eds), Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13818 LNAI, Springer, pp. 45-53, 14th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, 13/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_5

Evaluating Robot Acceptance in Children with ASD and Their Parents. / Zehnder, Eloise; Jouaiti, Melanie; Charpillet, François.
Social Robotics: 14th International Conference, ICSR 2022, Florence, Italy, December 13–16, 2022, Proceedings, Part II. ed. / Filippo Cavallo; John-John Cabibihan; Laura Fiorini; Alessandra Sorrentino; Hongsheng He; Xiaorui Liu; Yoshio Matsumoto; Shuzhi Sam Ge. Springer, 2023. p. 45-53 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13818 LNAI).

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