@inproceedings{4c29ed6d31774a9dae5ad3ab9448c137,
title = "Assessing children's first impressions of {"}wallBo{"}- a robotic handwashing buddy",
abstract = "In this paper we present our preliminary results from the first trial conducted with {"}WallBo{"}a robotic buddy to improve handwashing for children in schools. The one-week trial was carried out in a Scottish school with 16 pupils, aged 6-7 in an ecologically valid setting. The 1:1 interaction with WallBo resulted in 86.25% handwashing compliance, a 33.25% improvement from the baseline handwashing technique pre-WallBo training, and an overall, ≈ 35% improvement on knowledge about hand hygiene. We also report some insights about perceptions about WallBo in this paper.",
keywords = "child-robot interaction, handwashing, interaction design, user perception, COVID-19",
author = "Amol Deshmukh and Katie Riddoch and Cross, {Emily S.}",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1145/3459990.3465174",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "521--526",
booktitle = "IDC 2021",
address = "United States",
note = "ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (20th : 2021), IDC 2021 ; Conference date: 24-06-2021 Through 30-06-2021",
}