Assessing children's first impressions of "wallBo"- a robotic handwashing buddy

Amol Deshmukh; Katie Riddoch; Emily S. Cross

doi:10.1145/3459990.3465174

Assessing children's first impressions of "wallBo"- a robotic handwashing buddy

Amol Deshmukh, Katie Riddoch, Emily S. Cross

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	521-526
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384520
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465174
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021
Event	ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (20th : 2021) - Virtual, Online, Greece Duration: 24 Jun 2021 → 30 Jun 2021

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Conference	ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (20th : 2021)
Abbreviated title	IDC 2021
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Virtual, Online
Period	24/06/21 → 30/06/21

Keywords

child-robot interaction
handwashing
interaction design
user perception
COVID-19

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Deshmukh, A, Riddoch, K & Cross, ES 2021, Assessing children's first impressions of "wallBo"- a robotic handwashing buddy. in Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, pp. 521-526, ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (20th : 2021), Virtual, Online, Greece, 24/06/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465174

Assessing children's first impressions of "wallBo"- a robotic handwashing buddy. / Deshmukh, Amol; Riddoch, Katie; Cross, Emily S.
Proceedings of Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2021. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 521-526.

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