Papers
15
Total Citations
408
H-Index
11
About
Chiara de Jong is a leading researcher at the intersection of child development, human-robot interaction, and educational technology, whose work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of how children relate to and accept social robots. With her most-cited paper — "Child-Robot Interactions for Second Language Tutoring to Preschool Children" (2017, 125 citations) — she established foundational design principles for robots as educational tools, demonstrating that thoughtfully engineered child-robot interactions can meaningfully support language acquisition in young learners. De Jong's broader scholarship has systematically mapped the psychological and social dimensions of child-robot relationships. She has investigated how trust, closeness, and perceived social support develop between children and robots, while also developing and validating measurement instruments specifically designed for child populations — a methodological contribution of considerable practical value to the field. Her work on robot morphology reveals how a robot's physical form shapes children's perceptions of animacy and social presence, and her research on children's acceptance and adoption of domestic robots addresses urgent questions about robots entering everyday family life. Collectively accumulating over 360 citations, de Jong's research provides both the empirical grounding and ethical foresight necessary to guide the responsible integration of social robots into children's educational and domestic environments.
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Top Papers
- 1Child-Robot Interactions for Second Language Tutoring to Preschool Children125 citations · 2017
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- 4Technological and Interpersonal Trust in Child-Robot Interaction28 citations · 2018
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- 6Children’s acceptance of social robots24 citations · 2019
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- 8Robot Morphology and Children's Perception of Social Robots20 citations · 2020
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- 10The Effect of Age on Engagement in Preschoolers' Child-Robot Interactions16 citations · 2017