The work presented in this paper was carried out in the context of the project Girls and boys: one day at university promoted by the City of Turin together with the University of Turin. We were responsible for two educational activities on robotics and coding hosted at the Computer Science Department, which made one of its laboratories available for this kind of lesson. At the conclusion of the lab's sessions, children compiled the Attribution of Mental State (AMS) questionnaire, which is a measure of mental states that participants attribute to robots, namely the user's perception of the robot's mental qualities as compared to humans. We distributed the questionnaires both to children attending the educational robotics lab and to children performing coding activities. Results show that the first group attributed higher mental qualities to the robots, compared to the attribution given by children that did not have a direct experience with a robot.
翻译:本文介绍的工作是在女孩和男孩项目范围内进行的:一天在都灵市和都灵大学共同推动的大学里进行,我们负责计算机科学部主办的关于机器人和编码的两项教育活动,使计算机科学部的一个实验室可以学习这种课程,在实验室会议结束时,儿童汇编了精神状态(AMS)问卷,这是一种精神状态的衡量标准,参与者将这种状态归因于机器人,即用户对机器人与人类相比的心理素质的看法。我们向参加教育机器人实验室的儿童和从事编码活动的儿童分发了问卷。结果显示,第一组儿童认为机器人具有更高的心理素质,而没有与机器人直接经历的儿童的特性则比较。</s>