“You” versus “children”: A repeated-measures experiment on the effects of social robots’ use of (im)personal address forms when talking to children

Q1 Social Sciences
Caroline L. van Straten, Jochen Peter, Rinaldo Kühne
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Abstract

Address forms are an important element of communication and can both reflect and affect how social robots are responded to. However, their effects on children's responses to social robots remain understudied. To fill this gap initially, we conducted an online repeated-measures experiment to investigate the effects of a robot's use of personal (“you”) versus impersonal (“children”) address forms on children's involvement in the interaction, their perception of the robot (in terms of cognitive and affective perspective-taking and social support) and their relationship with it (i.e., feelings of closeness and trust). Children (N = 282, age 8–9) watched two videos of a Nao robot with one week in between, in which the robot addressed them either personally or impersonally. We expected that children would respond more positively to a robot that always used personal address forms than to a robot that always used impersonal address forms, resulting in higher scores on all aforementioned variables. In addition, we expected that a change from impersonal to personal address forms over encounters would positively influence children's involvement, perception of the robot, and relationship with it, and vice versa for a change from personal to impersonal address forms. However, we did not find any significant effects of address form. We discuss the lack of significant findings in light of the differences between communication with humans versus machines.

"你 "与 "孩子们":关于社交机器人在与儿童交谈时使用(非)个人称呼形式的影响的重复测量实验
称呼形式是交流的一个重要元素,既能反映也能影响人们对社交机器人的反应。然而,它们对儿童对社交机器人的反应的影响仍未得到充分研究。为了初步填补这一空白,我们进行了一项在线重复测量实验,研究机器人使用个人("您")和非个人("孩子们")地址形式对儿童参与互动、他们对机器人的感知(在认知和情感角度以及社会支持方面)以及他们与机器人的关系(即亲近感和信任感)的影响。孩子们(282 人,8-9 岁)观看了两段 Nao 机器人的视频,中间间隔一周,视频中机器人对他们进行了个人或非个人的讲话。我们预计,儿童对总是使用个人称呼形式的机器人的反应会比对总是使用非个人称呼形式的机器人的反应更积极,从而在上述所有变量中获得更高的分数。此外,我们还预计,在遇到机器人时,从非个人地址形式到个人地址形式的变化会对儿童的参与、对机器人的看法以及与机器人的关系产生积极影响,反之亦然,从个人地址形式到非个人地址形式的变化也会对儿童产生积极影响。但是,我们没有发现地址形式有任何显著影响。我们将根据与人交流和与机器交流之间的差异来讨论缺乏重大发现的问题。
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