Child oriented storytelling with NAO robot in hospital environment: preliminary application results

The paper presents a novel approach to design of robot-child interaction

scenarios for hospital settings based on comparative observations of the emotional

reactions of chidren to humanoid robot NAO behavior. We compared the emotional

reactions of three target groups – children with cancer in the hospital 4-14 years

old, children of 5-7 years of age in a school environment and children in a day care

center with different types of developmental problems. In all cases the emotional

reaction to humanoid robots are positive and improving the overall conditions of

chidren according to the oppinions of all involved teachers and caregivers