Designing Conversational Robots with Children during the Pandemic

Abstract

Our research project (CHATTERS) is about designing a conversational robot for children's digital information search. We want to design a robot with a suitable conversation, that fosters a responsible trust relationship between child and robot. In this paper we give:1) a preliminary view on an empirical study around children's trust in robots that provide information, which was conducted via video call due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2) We also give a preliminary analysis of a co-design workshop we conducted, where the pandemic may have impacted children's design choices. (3) We close by describing the upcoming research activities we are developing.

Artificial Intelligence for Digital Heritage Innovation: Setting up a R&D Agenda for Europe

“…• Interactive storytelling and content-generation interfaces: AI-powered interactive narratives and documentaries engage users with historical events and cultural context. AI can further enhance access by using fine-grained and time-based data extracted by AI systems as a basis for creating "generous interfaces" that allow for the rich exploration of CH collections [146,147] and using conversational speech to provide new ways of interacting with audiovisual collections [148].…”