A is for Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Activities on Young Children's Perceptions of Robots
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Author(s)
Williams, Randi
Park, Hae Won
Breazeal, Cynthia
Date Issued
2019
Journal
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Williams, Randi, Park, Hae Won and Breazeal, Cynthia. 2019. "A is for Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Activities on Young Children's Perceptions of Robots." Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings.
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Abstract
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. We developed a novel early childhood artificial intelligence (AI) platform, PopBots, where preschool children train and interact with social robots to learn three AI concepts: knowledge-based systems, supervised machine learning, and generative AI. We evaluated how much children learned by using AI assessments we developed for each activity. The median score on the cumulative assessment was 70% and children understood knowledge-based systems the best. Then, we analyzed the impact of the activities on children’s perceptions of robots. Younger children came to see robots as toys that were smarter than them, but their older counterparts saw them more as people that were not as smart as them. Children who performed worse on the AI assessments believed that robots were like toys that were not as smart as them, however children who did better on the assessments saw robots as people who were smarter than them. We believe early AI education can empower children to understand the AI devices that are increasingly in their lives.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300677
