机器人情绪表达影响孩子行为，但表达越丰富未必效果越好。
Emotionally Expressive Robots: Implications for Children's Behavior toward Robot
- 用三种情绪表现方式测试机器人对儿童的影响
- 孩子会模仿机器人的隐含情绪状态，但表达越复杂效果不更优
- 适合关注人机情感互动的教育科技研究者参考
具有人工情绪表达能力的机器人日益发展，引发了其在儿童行为引导中的潜在影响力问题。尽管情绪表达在人际沟通中具有实用价值，但机器人情绪表达应如何影响儿童共情反应仍存争议。本研究通过22名7至11岁儿童的预实验，探索了拟人化机器人QTRobot在展示快乐与悲伤两种基本情绪时，仅通过身体、仅通过面部或同时通过身体与面部表达，对儿童在协作轮流游戏中行为表现的影响。结果显示，儿童会根据机器人的情绪状态调整自身行为，但更高层次的表达并未带来更强的行为一致性。初步结果为未来机器人作为社交同伴影响儿童社会情感行为提供了思考起点。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The growing development of robots with artificial emotional expressiveness raises important questions about their persuasive potential in children's behavior. While research highlights the pragmatic value of emotional expressiveness in human social communication, the extent to which robotic expressiveness can or should influence empathic responses in children is grounds for debate. In a pilot study with 22 children (aged 7-11) we begin to explore the ways in which different levels of embodied expressiveness (body only, face only, body and face) of two basic emotions (happiness and sadness) displayed by an anthropomorphic robot (QTRobot) might modify children's behavior in a child-robot cooperative turn-taking game. We observed that children aligned their behavior to the robot's inferred emotional state. However, higher levels of expressiveness did not result in increased alignment. The preliminary results reported here provide a starting point for reflecting on robotic expressiveness and its role in shaping children's social-emotional behavior toward robots as social peers in the near future.
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