The Effect of Simple Emotional Gesturing in a Socially Assistive Robot on Child's Engagement at a Group Vaccination Day

Anouk Neerincx; Jessica Leven; Pieter Wolfert; Maartje M.A. De Graaf

doi:10.1145/3568162.3576960

The Effect of Simple Emotional Gesturing in a Socially Assistive Robot on Child's Engagement at a Group Vaccination Day

Anouk Neerincx, Jessica Leven, Pieter Wolfert, Maartje M.A. De Graaf

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Abstract

Children encounter high levels of stress and anxiety before receiving medical treatment, such as a vaccination. This paper explores the efect of emotional gesturing in socially assistive robots (SARs) on children's observed and self-reported engagement, as well as self-reported anxiety, fear, and trust during a group vaccination. A total of 249 children interacted with the social robot iPal before and after receiving the vaccine. Our results show an overall positive efect of adding emotional gestures to a SAR's interaction behavior leading to increased engagement and lower anxiety, while increased engagement also resulted in trusting the robot more. Thus, adding emotional gestures during child-robot interaction is a powerful way to improve the child's experience during a group vaccination day.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	162-171
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450399647
ISBN (Print)	9781450399647
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576960
Publication status	Published - 13 Mar 2023
Event	18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 13 Mar 2023 → 16 Mar 2023

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Conference	18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2023
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	13/03/23 → 16/03/23

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank all children and parents for their participation, as well as Andrew Kambel, Jesse Hoekman, Thomas Dallmeir, Rosalie Wendt, and Jesse Borghardt for supporting us during the vaccination day. This research was supported by the Flemish Research Foundation grant no. 1S95020N.

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© 2023 Association for Computing Machinery.

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We would like to thank all children and parents for their participation, as well as Andrew Kambel, Jesse Hoekman, Thomas Dallmeir, Rosalie Wendt, and Jesse Borghardt for supporting us during the vaccination day. This research was supported by the Flemish Research Foundation grant no. 1S95020N.

Keywords

child-robot interaction
emotional gestures
feld study

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Neerincx, A., Leven, J., Wolfert, P., & De Graaf, M. M. A. (2023). The Effect of Simple Emotional Gesturing in a Socially Assistive Robot on Child's Engagement at a Group Vaccination Day. In HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 162-171). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576960

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The Effect of Simple Emotional Gesturing in a Socially Assistive Robot on Child's Engagement at a Group Vaccination Day. / Neerincx, Anouk; Leven, Jessica; Wolfert, Pieter et al.
HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 162-171.

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