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Comparing the Effect of Different Styles of Voice on Children's Engagement with a Virtual Robot: A Preliminary Study

Authors:
Romain Vallée
Lucas Prégaldiny
Véronique Aubergé
Emilie Cénac
Serge Tisseron
Olivier Aycard

Keywords: human-virtual robot interaction, human-agent interaction, socio-affective prosody, trust with children, nonverbal speech

Abstract:
This paper aims at understanding the influence of prosody during a child-virtual robot interaction. We provide and analyze an experiment including 30 children aged 6 to 10, who interact with several virtual robots in a video game. This preliminary study highlights the impact of voice on children, as they tend to prefer an expressive voice using non-lexical vocal elements rather than an acted voice simulating stereotypical synthetic voices.

Pages: 202 to 206

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: April 24, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-68558-078-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023