TY - GEN
T1 - Promoting Children's Critical Thinking Towards Robotics through Robot Deception
AU - Lupetti, Maria Luce
AU - Van Mechelen, Maarten
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The need for critically reflecting on the deceptive nature of advanced technologies, such as social robots, is urging academia and civil society to rethink education and the skills needed by future generations. The promotion of critical thinking, however, remains largely unaddressed within the field of educational robotics. To address this gap and question if and how robots can be used to promote critical thinking in young children's education, we conducted an explorative design study named Bringing Shybo Home. Through this study, in which a robot was used as a springboard for debate with twenty 8- to 9-year-old children at school, we exemplify how the deceptive nature of robots, if embraced and magnified in order for it to become explicitly controversial, can be used to nurture children's critical mindset.
AB - The need for critically reflecting on the deceptive nature of advanced technologies, such as social robots, is urging academia and civil society to rethink education and the skills needed by future generations. The promotion of critical thinking, however, remains largely unaddressed within the field of educational robotics. To address this gap and question if and how robots can be used to promote critical thinking in young children's education, we conducted an explorative design study named Bringing Shybo Home. Through this study, in which a robot was used as a springboard for debate with twenty 8- to 9-year-old children at school, we exemplify how the deceptive nature of robots, if embraced and magnified in order for it to become explicitly controversial, can be used to nurture children's critical mindset.
KW - critical thinking
KW - deception
KW - design exploration
KW - educational robotics
KW - societal impact
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130266877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889511
DO - 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889511
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130266877
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 588
EP - 597
BT - HRI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE
T2 - 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2022
Y2 - 7 March 2022 through 10 March 2022
ER -