From Modelling to Understanding Children's Behaviour in the Context of Robotics and Social Artificial Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11161v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:58:42 GMT
• Title: From Modelling to Understanding Children's Behaviour in the Context of Robotics and Social Artificial Intelligence
• Authors: Serge Thill and Vicky Charisi and Tony Belpaeme and Ana Paiva
• Abstract summary: This workshop aims to promote a common ground among different disciplines such as developmental sciences, artificial intelligence and social robotics. We will discuss cutting-edge research in the area of user modelling and adaptive systems for children.
• Score: 3.6017760602154576
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding and modelling children's cognitive processes and their behaviour in the context of their interaction with robots and social artificial intelligence systems is a fundamental prerequisite for meaningful and effective robot interventions. However, children's development involve complex faculties such as exploration, creativity and curiosity which are challenging to model. Also, often children express themselves in a playful way which is different from a typical adult behaviour. Different children also have different needs, and it remains a challenge in the current state of the art that those of neurodiverse children are under-addressed. With this workshop, we aim to promote a common ground among different disciplines such as developmental sciences, artificial intelligence and social robotics and discuss cutting-edge research in the area of user modelling and adaptive systems for children.

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