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"It's Not a Replacement:" Enabling Parent-Robot Collaboration to Support In-Home Learning Experiences of Young Children

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Ho, Hui-Ru, Hubbard, Edward M., Mutlu, Bilge·2024·Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Learning companion robots for young children are increasingly adopted in informal learning environments. Although parents play a pivotal role in their children’s learning, very little is known about how parents prefer to incorporate robots into their children’s learning activities. We developed prototype capabilities for a learning companion robot to deliver educational prompts and responses to parent-child pairs during reading sessions and conducted in-home user studies involving 10 families with children aged 3–5. Our data indicates that parents want to work with robots as collaborators to augment parental activities to foster children’s learning, introducing the notion of parent-robot collaboration. Our findings offer an empirical understanding of the needs and challenges of parent-child interaction in informal learning scenarios and design opportunities for integrating a companion robot into these interactions. We offer insights into how robots might be designed to facilitate parent-robot collaboration, including parenting policies, collaboration patterns, and interaction paradigms.

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Authors
Ho, H.-R., Hubbard, E. M., & Mutlu, B.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2024-05-11
Pages
1-18
OpenAlex
W4393117285
Cited by
24
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 3
FWCI
16.12
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (cc-by)
Funders
National Science Foundation (2202803)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Educational Robotics and Engineering
  • Social Sciences › Education › Child Development and Digital Technology
Keywords
young children, informal learning, parent-child interaction, reading sessions, robot design, collaboration patterns, interaction paradigms, parenting policy

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