Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human dyadic interaction at home

The integration of social robots into family environments raises critical questions about their long-term influence on family interactions. This study explores the potential of social robots as conversational catalysts in human-human dyadic interaction, focusing on enhancing high-quality, reciprocal conversations between parents and children during dialogic co-reading activities. With the increasing prevalence of social robots in homes and the recognized importance of parent-child exchanges for children's developmental milestones, this work presents a comprehensive empirical investigation involving over 70 parent-child dyads. We examined the effects of three robot interaction styles: a passive robot listener, an active robot with a fixed behavior strategy, and an active robot with a strategy-switching mechanism on parent-child conversational dynamics. Our findings reveal that a robot's active participation enhances the quality of parent-child dialogic conversations. Notably, the impact ..., , , # Data from: Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human dyadic interaction at home

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvsh](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvsh)

This dataset contains data on the conversational dynamics between a parent and child in the robot deployment study. It also contains the demographic profile information of the participants. 

## Description of the data and file structure

 The conversational dynamics consists of six conversational quality indicators. The six columns in the dataset named \_data-file_-dataset-of-parent-child-conversational-dynamics_(1)_(1).csv:

* Conv-Time-Dyad: [f]total_time_chat/time_interval. 
* the time dyad spent on conversing (in secs)
* Conv-Turns-Dyad: [f]chat_turn_num/time_interval
* the number of turns that took place between the parent and child
* Conv-Time-Parent: [f]total_time_chat_parent/time_interval
* the time parent spent on conversing (in secs)
* Conv-Ratio-Parent: [f]chat/chat+read-P...,