Robotic pets in the lives of preschool children

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1449-1452

  Kahn Jr , Peter H ^a   Friedman, Batya ^a   Perez Granados, Deanne R ^b   Freier, Nathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIBO; Children; Companionship; Ethics; Human values; Humanrobotic relationship; Moral development; Robotic pets; Social responses to technology; User conceptions; Value sensitive design; Virtual pets

Indexed keywords

AIBO; CHILDREN; COMPANIONSHIP; ETHICS; HUMAN VALUES; HUMANROBOTIC RELATIONSHIP; MORAL DEVELOPMENT; ROBOTIC PET; SOCIAL RESPONSES TO TECHNOLOGY; USER CONCEPTION; VALUE SENSITIVE DESIGN; VIRTUAL PETS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84876762818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/985921.986087     Document Type: Conference Paper

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