On sharing and caring: Investigating the effects of a robot's self-disclosure and question- asking on children's robot perceptions and child-robot relationship formation

• DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.107135
• Publication Date: 2021-12-04T07:25:53Z
• Authors: Caroline L. van S...; Jochen Peter; Rinaldo Kühne; Alex Barco
• Keywords: Social robot

Although scholars have focused on the role of self-disclosure in context child-robot interaction and relationship formation, little is known as to how effects a robot's vary by information robot shares. Moreover, influence question-asking children's perception of, formation with remains understudied. We therefore investigated experimentally, 2 × between-subjects design, children perceive relate social when engages (personal) versus (factual) self-description does or not ask them questions. collected self-report data from 293 aged 7 10, who interacted Nao science museum. The increased trust well their belief its cognitive perspective-taking abilities. Self-disclosure, contrast, decreased capacity adopt affective perspective. Children's consideration actor potential friend did differ across conditions. A post-hoc analysis showed that effect was mediated