Cirasa, C.; Høgsdal, H.; Conti, D. “I See What You Feel”: An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 1446.
Cirasa, C.; Høgsdal, H.; Conti, D. “I See What You Feel”: An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 1446.
Cirasa, C.; Høgsdal, H.; Conti, D. “I See What You Feel”: An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 1446.
Cirasa, C.; Høgsdal, H.; Conti, D. “I See What You Feel”: An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 1446.
Abstract
Scientific research in the study of Human-Robot Interactions (HRI) has advanced significantly in recent years. Social humanoid robots have undergone severe testing and have been implemented in a variety of settings, including educational institutions, healthcare facilities and senior care centers. Humanoid robots have also been evaluated across diverse population groups. However, the research on different children-groups is still scarce, especially deaf children. This feasibility study includes both hearing children and deaf children, and aim to assess the interaction between children and a humanoid robot without the use of sounds and voices. In addition, an experiment was conducted where the children were asked to watch a video and then assess whether the NAO humanoid robot responded to the emotions shown in the video in a congruent or incongruent way. The findings indicated that there was no difference between the children who were present-ed with congruent emotions in the NAO as opposed to the children who were presented with in-congruent emotions in the robot. Only the ability to predict emotion in videos and gender were significant predictors of guessing the correct emotion in robot. Although no significantly differ-ence was found between hearing and deaf children, this feasibility study is intended to lay the groundwork for future research in this unexplored field of study.
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