THE PERCEPTION OF ROBOT'S EMOTIONAL GESTURES AND SPEECH BY CHILDREN SOLVING A SPATIAL PUZZLE

摘要

The emotional behavior of a companion robot is important for human-robot interaction in the situation of training tasks. We examined the influence of emotional gestures and emotional speech of the robot on its perception by primary school students (N=52, male, female, mean age 9.8) in the situation of joint solution of the spatial Tangram puzzle. It was shown that emotional gestures make a significant contribution to the attractiveness of the robot for the child. It was also found that test subjects prefer the robot with emotional gestures and speech over the robot with neutral gesture and speech behavior. The study also analyzed the communicative behavior of children, identified typical communicative signs that are typical for interaction start with the robot, for monitoring the game and for difficult situations. We described typical mistakes that children make when assembling a puzzle together with the robot.