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Child-centered home service design for a family robot companion

Hyo Jeong Lym; Hyo In Son; Da-Young Kim; Juhyun Kim; Min-Gyu Kim; Jae Hee Chung

Originally published 2024-07-29 · Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/frobt.2024.1346257 ↗

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AI / system type

Home social robot; designed activity/dialogue service

Direct parenting evidence

Directly addresses parents or caregiving, including parent studies, syntheses and audits of parenting advice.

The AI connection

Evaluates a social-robot companion service with 50 plays and 70 conversations.

Why this reading matters

Actual home testing supplies family-context evidence often missing from classroom robot studies.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

Could a robot activity bring us into conversation rather than draw my child away?

Maps to Collaboration through shared play and a robot acting as a messenger within family activities.

Study context

50 children and their parents using a home activity service for four days

Age / stage: 5–7 years

Read with three questions

  1. How were parents and child-development experts involved in design?
  2. Which of the plays or conversations invited family exchange?
  3. Why should satisfaction be separated from a proven relationship improvement?

Keep the limits in view

Four-day uncontrolled test and subjective parent/child ratings; novelty and developer-designed activities limit claims about sustained family relationships.

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Hyo Jeong Lym; Hyo In Son; Da-Young Kim; Juhyun Kim; Min-Gyu Kim; Jae Hee Chung (2024). Child-centered home service design for a family robot companion Frontiers in Robotics and AI. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2024.1346257

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