Assessments for Measuring Young Children's Long-Term Relationships with Social Robots

Social robots are being increasingly developed for long-term interactions with children. However, there are few validated assessments for measuring young children's relationships with social robots. We provide several social/relational assessments for measuring young children's relationships with social robots. These assessments were pilot-tested in the spring of 2017. The following paper presents the results of the pilot study for the Inclusion of Other in Self (IOS) task, the Social-Relational Interview, the Narrative Description task, and the Targeted Self-disclosure task with children aged 4-7 years. The results showed that children could appropriately respond to these assessments and that they had high internal reliability. You are free to use or adapt these assessments. If you do, please cite the following paper:Kory Westlund, J. M., Park, H., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2018). Measuring Young Children's Long-term Relationships with Social Robots. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) ACM: New York, NY.面向儿童开展长期交互的社交机器人（Social robots）正得到日益广泛的研发。然而，当前用于测评幼儿与社交机器人之间关系的经过效度验证的标准化工具却寥寥无几。本数据集提供了多款适用于评估幼儿与社交机器人关系的社交/关系类测评工具，这些工具已于2017年春季完成预测试。本研究相关论文汇报了针对4至7岁儿童开展的自我包含他人（Inclusion of Other in Self，IOS）任务、社交关系访谈、叙事描述任务以及针对性自我表露任务的预测试结果。测试结果表明，幼儿能够对这些测评工具作出恰当回应，且各工具均具备较高的内部一致性信度。您可自由使用或对本数据集提供的测评工具进行适配改造。若您使用或改造该类工具，请引用如下文献：Kory Westlund, J. M., Park, H., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2018). Measuring Young Children's Long-term Relationships with Social Robots. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC) ACM: New York, NY.