Can Children Catch Curiosity from a Social Robot?

Curiosity is key to learning, yet school children show wide variability in their eagerness to acquire information. Recent research suggests that other people have a strong influence on children's exploratory behavior. Would a curious robot elicit children's exploration and the desire to fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gordon, Goren, Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn, Engel, Susan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104042
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0587-2065