Analysis of the Influence of Mothers' Traits and Behaviors on Children's Conversational Play with an Utterance-Output Device

Abstract

Authors have conducted an observation experiment mainly on conversational play for creating the basic findings of childcare support by smart speakers. Our previous study analyzed children's attitudes and behaviors toward an utterance-output device during conversational play. In this experiment, the mother was beside her child, and the influence of the mother on the conversational play seemed to be great, but we have not been analyzed it yet. In this study, we analyzed the relationships between traits and behaviors of mothers, and children's conversational play. The results suggest that the more epistemic curiosity mothers are, the more children follow the instruction of an utterance-output device as third person, and that the more mothers prompt the conversational play toward their children, the less they react to phrases of the utterance-output device.