Does your robot know? Enhancing children's information retrieval through spoken conversation with responsible robots
This addresses information retrieval problems for children, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing conversational agent concepts with added trust adaptation.
The paper tackles challenges in children's information retrieval by proposing conversational robots that maintain context, ask clarifying questions, and give suggestions to better meet children's needs, while also measuring and adapting to children's trust to foster a critical attitude.
In this paper, we identify challenges in children's current information retrieval process, and propose conversational robots as an opportunity to ease this process in a responsible way. Tools children currently use in this process, such as search engines on a computer or voice agents, do not always meet their specific needs. The conversational robot we propose maintains context, asks clarifying questions, and gives suggestions in order to better meet children's needs. Since children are often too trusting of robots, we propose to have the robot measure, monitor and adapt to the trust the child has in the robot. This way, we hope to induce a critical attitude with the children during their information retrieval process.