Can Children Catch Curiosity from a Social Robot?

Curiosity is key to learning, yet school children show wide variability in their eagerness to acquire information. Recent research suggests that other people have a strong influence on children's exploratory behavior. Would a curious robot elicit children's exploration and the desire to fi...

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Main Authors: Gordon, Goren (Contributor), Breazeal, Cynthia Lynn (Contributor), Engel, Susan (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory (Contributor), Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016-08-26T17:43:28Z.
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