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Building a Technoself: Children’s Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets

Building a Technoself: Children’s Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets

Gail F. Melson
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466646070|ISBN10: 1466646071|EISBN13: 9781466646087
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4607-0.ch068
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Melson, Gail F. "Building a Technoself: Children’s Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets." Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 1407-1423. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4607-0.ch068

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Melson, G. F. (2014). Building a Technoself: Children’s Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1407-1423). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4607-0.ch068

Chicago

Melson, Gail F. "Building a Technoself: Children’s Ideas about and Behavior toward Robotic Pets." In Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1407-1423. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4607-0.ch068

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on how the technoself develops in children through relationships with a “personal” robot technology, robotic pets, especially the robotic dog AIBO. Drawing on studies of children and AIBO as well as similar robotic technologies, I examine children’s ideas about and behaviors toward such robotic pets in order to describe three domains of the technoself: (1) ideas about the robot (the technological object); (2) ideas about the child’s relationship with the robot; and (3) ideas about the self-in-relationship with the robot. A dynamic developmental perspective is applied to each of the three domains of cognition and behavior, technological object, relationship, and self-in-relationship, that make up the technoself. This perspective asks how variability in child characteristics, such as developmental level, gender, temperament, personality or intelligence; in contextual factors, such as family background or prior experience with other technologies; and in robotic pets themselves predict these three aspects of the technoself.

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