Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild

Aino Ahtinen; Nasim Beheshtian; Kaisa Väänänen

doi:10.1145/3568162.3576976

Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild

Aino Ahtinen^*
, Nasim Beheshtian
, Kaisa Väänänen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Social robots are becoming important agents in several sectors of people's lives. They can act in diferent contexts, e.g., public spaces, schools, and homes. Operating, programming and interacting with these robots will be an essential skill in the future. We present a qualitative and explorative study on how family members collaboratively learn (co-learn) about social robots at their homes. Our one-month in the wild study took place at homes of eight families (N=32) in Finland. We defned a novel model for co-learning about and with a social robot at home, Robocamp. In Robocamp, Alpha Mini robot was introduced and left within the families, who were then provided with weekly robotic challenges to be conducted with the robot. The research data was collected by semi-structured interviews and online diaries. This study provides novel insights about family-based co-learning with social robots in the home context. It also ofers recommendations for implementing family-based co-learning with social robots at homes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	ACM
Pages	331-340
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450399647
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576976
Publication status	Published - 13 Mar 2023
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 13 Mar 2023 → 16 Mar 2023

Publication series

Name	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
ISSN (Electronic)	2167-2148

Conference

Conference	Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	13/03/23 → 16/03/23

Funding

We express our gratitude to our study participants and thank Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University for providing funding for this research

Keywords

Co-learning
Educational robots
Families
Homes
Social robots
User experience

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Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Computer Interaction
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Ahtinen, A., Beheshtian, N., & Väänänen, K. (2023). Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild. In HRI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 331-340). (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576976

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Ahtinen, A , Beheshtian, N & Väänänen, K 2023, Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild. in HRI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, ACM, pp. 331-340, Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Stockholm, Sweden, 13/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568162.3576976

Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild. / Ahtinen, Aino ; Beheshtian, Nasim ; Väänänen, Kaisa.
HRI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM, 2023. p. 331-340 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction).

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Ahtinen A , Beheshtian N , Väänänen K. Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild. In HRI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2023. p. 331-340. (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction). doi: 10.1145/3568162.3576976

Robocamp at home: Exploring families' co-learning with a social robot: Findings from a one-month study in the wild

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