A long-term study of young children's rapport, social emulation, and language learning with a peer-like robot playmate in preschool

JM Kory-Westlund, C Breazeal - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Prior research has demonstrated the importance of children's peers for their learning and
development. In particular, peer interaction, especially with more advanced peers, can …

Exploring the effects of a social robot's speech entrainment and backstory on young children's emotion, rapport, relationship, and learning

JM Kory-Westlund, C Breazeal - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In positive human-human relationships, people frequently mirror or mimic each other's
behavior. This mimicry, also called entrainment, is associated with rapport and smoother …

Long-term interaction with relational SIAs

JM Kory-Westlund, H Won Park, I Grover… - The Handbook on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on long-term interaction with Socially
Interactive Agents (SIAs). Over the past of couple decades, as SIAs have become more …

Interaction pace and user preferences

A Goguey, C Gutwin, Z Chen, P Suwanaposee… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The overall pace of interaction combines the user's pace and the system's pace, and a pace
mismatch could impair user preferences (eg, animations or timeouts that are too fast or slow …

[HTML][HTML] Automatically adapting system pace towards user pace—Empirical studies

A Cockburn, A Goguey, C Gutwin, Z Chen… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
An interactive application's overall pace of interaction is a combination of the user's pace
and the system's pace, and if the system's pace is mismatched to the user's pace (eg …

[PDF][PDF] A Multimodal Approach to Adaptive Dialogue Interaction for Learning Companion Robots

H Pon-Barry, N Lubold, E Walker, A Ogan - robots4learning.wordpress.com
Learning companion robots that support spoken natural language dialogue present exciting
opportunities for adaptive and personalized interaction. We hypothesize that adaptive robot …