Child’s Personality and Self-Disclosures to a Robot Persona “In-The-Wild”

Conference Paper (2023)
Authors

Anouk Neerincx (Universiteit Utrecht)

Y. Li (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)

Kelvin van de Sande (Universiteit Utrecht)

Frank Broz (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)

Mark Neerincx (TU Delft - Interactive Intelligence)

Maartje De Graaf (Universiteit Utrecht)

Research Group
Interactive Intelligence
Copyright
© 2023 Anouk Neerincx, Y. Li, Kelvin van de Sande, F. Broz, M.A. Neerincx, Maartje de Graaf
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Publication Year
2023
Language
English
Copyright
© 2023 Anouk Neerincx, Y. Li, Kelvin van de Sande, F. Broz, M.A. Neerincx, Maartje de Graaf
Research Group
Interactive Intelligence
Bibliographical Note
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Pages (from-to)
1202-1209
ISBN (print)
979-8-3503-3671-9
ISBN (electronic)
979-8-3503-3670-2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309477
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Abstract

Social robots can support children in their socio-emotional development [38]. To improve the cooperation between a child and a social robot, a good relationship is vital. Self-disclosure is an essential element for building personal relationships. Yet, knowledge about the effects of self-disclosure in child-robot interactions is still lacking. To investigate effects of robot persona, child personality, and self-disclosure category on self-disclosure in child-robot interaction, we have conducted a field study at a science festival in which children had a conversation with a robot that either behaved human-like or robot-like. The results show a significant difference in the amount of self-disclosure (in conversation duration) between the two robot personas. Additionally, significant relationships were found between conscientiousness and extraversion and amount of self-disclosure (in word count). The participant disclosed significantly more about the category `Attitudes and Opinions’ than about ‘School’. Finally, a thematic analysis shows that the content of the conversations can be categorised in five plus one themes. Between robot personas, the content of the conversations did not differ in terms of conversation themes. However, in both conditions, we found that children generally feel comfortable sharing unpleasant experiences about present themes (such as COVID) in a first encounter with a robot.

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