Comparison between two different prompting conditions when children use a lego robot to perform a set of tasks
Play is a vital activity in which children can develop social, cognitive, and linguistic skills through the manipulation of objects. Play in children with physical disabilities may be compromised due to their difficulties in reaching and grasping objects. Some studies using assistive technology robots to support children with disabilities when they play showed that children felt more independent when using the robots and enjoyed the activities. However, robots could be difficult to use for young children and this could lead to frustration. To facilitate play in children with disabilities when they use robots, they receive prompting from adults. Nevertheless, oftentimes adults tend to over-prompt children taking away the opportunity from children to try out new experiences by themselves. Assistive technology robots could be used to provide the prompting to children only when they need it, avoiding the over prompting. The objective of this study was to compare the performance of children when they used a Lego robot to perform a set of tasks in two different conditions. For the first condition, children did not receive prompting from the robot. For the second condition, children received prompting from the researcher via the robot (the researcher controlled the prompts and sent the commands to the robot so it could speak the prompt to children). Six typically developing children and one child with cerebral palsy participated in this study. Results showed that when children received prompting from the researcher via the robot, the performance of the younger children decreased compared to when they did not receive prompting, and it was because they were not used to a robot talking and giving instructions to them.Citation
M. Gomez-Medina, J. Castellanos-Cruz, A. Rincon, P. Pilarski, K. Adams. "Comparison between two different prompting conditions when children use a lego robot to perform a set of tasks". Assistive Technology, 31(5), November 2019.| Keywords: | |
| Category: | In Journal |
| Web Links: | Taylor & Francis |
BibTeX
@article{Gomez-Medina+al:19,
author = {Maria F. Gomez-Medina and Javier L. Castellanos-Cruz and Adriana M.
Rios Rincon and Patrick M. Pilarski and Kim Adams},
title = {Comparison between two different prompting conditions when children
use a lego robot to perform a set of tasks},
Volume = "31",
Number = "5",
journal = {Assistive Technology},
year = 2019,
}Last Updated: November 10, 2020Submitted by Sabina P
