6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION 2011
Workshop:
Robots with Children: Practices for
Human-Robot Symbiosis
EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland
March
6, 2011
Aim:
On considering symbiosis of
humans and robots, its benefits and risks should be taken into account for
persons in weaker positions of the society, in particular, children. On the
other hand, several robotics applications have been developed, including education
and welfare for children. In this stage, it is important that more researchers
from interdisciplinary research fields, including robotics, computer science,
psychology, sociology, and pedagogy, share an opportunity to discuss about the
potential of “robots with children”.
This half-day workshop aims at providing
with the forum where researchers from these interdisciplinary fields discuss
about how symbiosis of robots and children should and can be realized, from the
perspectives of engineering, psychology, education, and welfare.
Scope:
The workshop has invited sessions
with representative professionals and general sessions consisting of
submissions from several fields indicated as follows:
l Psychological
issues related to child-robot interaction:
Developmental psychology, social psychology, educational psychology, and
ethnographical research on robots with children
l Educational
engineering using robots,:
E-learning and R-learning
l Economical
and sociological issues related to child-robot interaction
l Philosophical
and ethical issues related to child-robot interaction
l Realistic
applications of robots with children
Program:
l
14:00~14:10: Opening (Naomi
Miyake)
l
14:10~16:10: Invited Session
Ø Care-Receiving
Robot and Telerobotics to Reinforce Children’s
Learning by Teaching and Communication Skills. Fumihide Tanaka (Tsukuba University, Japan)
Ø
r-Learning and
Practical Issues of Robots with Children. Jeonghye Han (Cheonju National
University of Education, Korea)
Ø
Robotics and Children’s Play: A Therapeutic Perspective. Ben Robins and
Kerstin Dautenhahn (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Ø
Robots as a Research Partner for Promoting
Young Children’s Collaborative Learning. Naomi Miyake
(University of Tokyo, Japan)
l
16:10~16:30: Break
l
16:30~17:45: General Session
Ø
Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction with
Young Users. Tony Belpaeme
(University of Plymouth, UK)
Ø
Children’s Perception of a Robotic
Companion in a Mildly Constrained Setting. Marco Nalin (Scientific Institute H San Raffaele,
Italy)
Ø
The Chanty
Bear: Toward a Robot Teaching English to Children. Kotaro
Funakoshi (Honda Research Institute Japan)
Ø
Sharing a Secret: Interactions between a
Child, Robot, and Adult. Cindy Bethel (Yale University, USA)
Ø
Absence of Anthropomorphic Bias in
Autistic Children. Thierry Chaminade
(Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, France)
l
17:45~18:00: Discussion
Organizers:
l Naomi
Miyake: Univ.
l Hiroshi
Ishiguro:
l Kerstin
Dautenhahn: Univ.
l Tatsuya
Nomura:
The
workshop is supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research “Founding a creative society via
collaboration between humans and robots”, and in part by the European funded
(FP7) research project “Living with Robots and Interactive Companions” (LIREC).