Expression of curiosity in social robots design, perception, and effects on behaviour

Jessy Ceha; Nalin Chhibber; Joslin Goh; Corina McDonald; Pierre Yves Oudeyer; Dana Kulić; Edith Law

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300636

Expression of curiosity in social robots design, perception, and effects on behaviour

Jessy Ceha, Nalin Chhibber, Joslin Goh, Corina McDonald, Pierre Yves Oudeyer, Dana Kulić, Edith Law

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Abstract

Curiosity–the intrinsic desire for new information–can enhance learning, memory, and exploration. Therefore, understanding how to elicit curiosity can inform the design of educational technologies. In this work, we investigate how a social peer robot’s verbal expression of curiosity is perceived, whether it can affect the emotional feeling and behavioural expression of curiosity in students, and how it impacts learning. In a between-subjects experiment, 30 participants played the game LinkIt!, a game we designed for teaching rock classification, with a robot verbally expressing: curiosity, curiosity plus rationale, or no curiosity. Results indicate that participants could recognize the robot’s curiosity and that curious robots produced both emotional and behavioural curiosity contagion effects in participants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Anna Cox, Vassilis Kostakos
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300636
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 Conference number: 37th https://chi2019.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3290605 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019
Abbreviated title	CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3290605 (Proceedings)

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Curiosity
Education
Social robot behaviour

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Ceha, J., Chhibber, N., Goh, J., McDonald, C., Oudeyer, P. Y., Kulić, D., & Law, E. (2019). Expression of curiosity in social robots design, perception, and effects on behaviour. In A. Cox, & V. Kostakos (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 406 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300636

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Ceha, J, Chhibber, N, Goh, J, McDonald, C, Oudeyer, PY, Kulić, D & Law, E 2019, Expression of curiosity in social robots design, perception, and effects on behaviour. in A Cox & V Kostakos (eds), Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 406, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300636

Expression of curiosity in social robots design, perception, and effects on behaviour. / Ceha, Jessy; Chhibber, Nalin; Goh, Joslin et al.
Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Anna Cox; Vassilis Kostakos. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. 406.

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