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The Changing Nature of Childhood Environments: Investigating Children’s Interactions with Digital Voice Assistants in Light of a New Paradigm

Authors:
Janik Festerling

Keywords: voice assistants; children-machine interaction; anthropomorphism; cognitive development; mixed methods.

Abstract:
Based on the theoretical framework of the New Ontological Category Hypothesis (NOCH), this piece of doctoral research (work in progress) investigates the nature of children’s interactions with commercial Digital Voice Assistants (DVAs), such as Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri. In a nutshell, NOCH challenges the notion of anthropomorphism and argues that intelligently behaving machines, such as voice assistants, could become ontological categories in their own right within children’s emerging understanding of the world. A methodological strategy is briefly outlined in order to explore NOCH with respect to children’s relative self-disclosure, that is, how children self-disclose personal insights when they interact with DVAs, on the one hand, and humans, on the other hand.

Pages: 186 to 191

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2020

Publication date: March 22, 2020

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-761-0

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 21, 2020 to November 25, 2020