Charisi, VickyMerino, LuisEscobar, María-JoséCaballero, FernandoGomez, RandyGómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-2023-03-072021Charisi V, Merino L, Escobar M, Caballero F, Gomez R, Gómez E. The effects of robot cognitive reliability and social positioning on child-robot team dynamics. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021); 2021 May 30-Jun 5; Xi'an, China. [Piscataway]: IEEE; 2021. p. 9439-45. DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.95607601050-4729http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56077Comunicació presentada a 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), celebrat del 30 de maig al 5 de juny a Xi'an, Xina.Human collaboration is more likely to lead to cognitive growth when all group-members are actively involved in the collaborative process. However, there are cases that intragroup relationships need support. In this paper, we present an autonomous robotic system designed to interact with a pair of children in a problem-solving setting, aiming to understand how the robot behaviour impacts the group-members’ social dynamics. We developed an autonomous system with the Haru robot which we evaluated with an experimental study with 5-8yo children (N =84) to test the impact of the robot’s cognitive reliability and social positioning on human-to-human social dynamics, task performance and help-seeking behaviour. All participants took part in a baseline session (without the robot), an intervention (with the robot in a turn-taking setting) and an evaluation session (with a robot in a voluntary interaction setting). Results indicate that children who interacted with the reliable robot had a better task performance but children who interacted with the unreliable robot exhibited more task-related social interactions. Based on the results, we propose an interaction design concept which combines the set of the evaluated robot behaviours for an adaptive targeted support of child-robot teaming.application/pdfeng© 2021 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560760info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjecthttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560760AutomationAutonomous systemsConferencesCollaborationReliabilityProblem-solvingTask analysisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess