How Children Tidy up Their Room with "Ranger" the Robotic Box

"Ranger" is a robotic box designed to motivate young children to tidy up the toys in their rom. It explores the idea of integrating robotics into daily life objects, such as a wooden box. The box shows light and sound when toys are put inside or removed. We carried out a series of field experiments (Wizard-of-Oz) with 14 families to evaluate the first prototype of Ranger. The robot was operated showing two different behaviors: an active or a passive one. We found that the robot's behavior had an impact on how children interacted with it. The poster also describes children's and parent's evaluation of the robot and how the design of Ranger could be improved

Motivating Children to Tidy up their Toys with a Robotic Box

The poster presents the evaluation of our prototype, called “Ranger”, which is a robotic box that aims to motivate young children to tidy up their room. The robot was tested in 14 families with 31 children (2-10 years) using the Wizard-of-Oz technique. We found that the way in which children interacted with the robotic box was impacted by how active it behaved. Significantly more toys were put in the box in the passive robot condition compared to children’s more playful and explorative behavior in the active robot condition. Our results hold important implications for the design of interactive robots for children

Georg Simmel, Marcel Mauss (éléments pour une approche sociologique de la relation humaine)

La refondation de la sociologie par un tiers paradigme qui tente de dépasser les problèmes méthodologiques de l'individualisme et du holisme sociologiques doit prendre en considération deux exigences majeures des sciences sociales contemporaines : continuer la réflexion philosophico-sociale en s'affranchissant des moyens de la phénoménologie classique ; considérer la relation humaine comme le point de départ et le centre de cette perspective. Cette thèse tente de saisir la structure ambivalente de la relation humaine à partir de Georg Simmel et Marcel Mauss, notamment de leur concept respectif : la Wechselwirkung (effet/s de réciprocité) et le don. L'apport de ces auteurs, que l'on peut considérer comme les sources majeures de l'approche proposée, a été souvent ignoré par des théories sociales contemporaines, préférant réduire le problème de l'interaction à un comportement économique-rationnel. Dans notre travail, nous essayons de montrer que Mauss et Simmel mettent pourtant en évidence une problématique riche et complexe de la relation humaine méritant d'être prise sérieusement en compte aujourd'hui. L'analyse et la comparaison des deux auteurs à partir de la confrontation de leur concept (Wechselwirkung et don) met à jour trois sphères susceptibles de nous donner une compréhension de la constitution de la relation humaine (moment de la naissance d'une relation), des déterminations qu'elle engendre entre les entités sociales en relation, et des processus de symbolisation et de différenciation sociale par lesquels elle donne sens et forme au monde environnant.The refoundation of sociology by a third paradigm who tries to overcome the methodological problems of sociological individualism and collectivism has to emphasize two majors trends of the modem social sciences: at first, it is the attempt to continue- social philosophy by others means, i.e. to critisize the use of the phenomenological knowledge in sociology; then, it has to consider the human relation as its key-phenomenon. In this work, we are pointing out the ambivalent structure of social exchange analysing and comparing the concept of Wechselwirkung from Georg Simmel and the gift from Marcel Mauss. The autors can be considered as the major sources of this approach, whereas the main sociological attitude was to reduce or to ignore their central issues, transforming human interaction into economical-rational behaviour. We try on the contrary to emphasize that Simmel and Mauss take in account how a complex social relationship should be theoretically considered nowadays. It can be separated and analysed in three epistemological spheres: the constitutive level (moment of birth of a relationship), the determinative level (determination between social facts each others) and the level of the two processes (symbolization and differentiation) they bind the constitutive and determinative levels and lead to the sens and forms that a human relation produce in the everyday-life.NANTERRE-BU PARIS10 (920502102) / SudocSudocFranceSwitzerlandFRC

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