Assessing Children's Perceptions and Acceptance of A Social Robot

Children's interactions with social robots and other technologies are increasingly longitudinal, especially in areas such as healthcare, therapy, and education. As a result, we need to understand how children perceive social robots over time and the kinds of relationships they are developing. However, relatively few validated assessments exist that measure young children's relationships or their perception and acceptance of social robots.

We provide two new assessments for measuring (1) children's perception of a robot's animacy and human-likeness (the Picture Sorting Task), and (2) children's acceptance of a robot (the Social Acceptance Questionnaire), with children aged 4--7.

These assessments were pilot-tested in 2017 and 2018 during both a single-session study and a long-term study. The following paper presents the results of these studies, which showed that children could respond appropriately to the assessments and that they had good reliability.

You are free to use or adapt these assessments. If you do, please cite the following paper:

Kory-Westlund, J.M., & Breazeal., C. (2019). Assessing Children's Perceptions and Acceptance of A Social Robot. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) ACM: New York, NY.

儿童与社交机器人（social robots）及其他技术的互动正日益呈现纵向追踪的特征，尤其在医疗保健、康复治疗与教育等领域。因此，我们亟需理解儿童随时间推移对社交机器人的认知，以及他们逐步建立的各类关系。然而，目前经效度验证、可用于评估幼儿社交关系，或其对社交机器人的认知与接受度的测评工具仍相对匮乏。
本研究开发了两款面向4至7岁儿童的全新测评工具，分别用于：（1）儿童对机器人有生性与类人性感知的评估（图片分类任务，Picture Sorting Task）；（2）儿童对机器人接受程度的测量（社交接受度问卷，Social Acceptance Questionnaire）。
上述两款测评工具已于2017年与2018年，分别在单次实验研究与长期追踪研究中完成预测试。后续发表的论文呈现了两项研究的结果，结果显示儿童能够对测评工具做出恰当响应，且该类测评工具具备良好的信度。
您可自由使用或改编本测评工具。若您选择使用，请引用如下论文：
Kory-Westlund, J.M. 与 Breazeal, C. (2019). 《评估儿童对社交机器人的认知与接受度》，收录于第18届ACM儿童交互设计会议（IDC）论文集，ACM出版社，纽约州纽约市。