Young Children Treat Robots as Informants

Children ranging from 3 to 5 years were introduced to two anthropomorphic robots that provided them with information about unfamiliar animals. Children treated the robots as interlocutors. They supplied information to the robots and retained what the robots told them. Children also treated the robot...

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Main Authors: Harris, Paul L., DeSteno, David, Dickens, Leah, Kory Westlund, Jacqueline Marie, Jeong, Sooyeon, Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley Blackwell 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108204
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0587-2065
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0418-4674
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-8130