Children's Openness to Interacting with a Robot Scale (COIRS)

Abstract

Current human-robot-interaction research methods could benefit from an age-appropriate scale that measures children's attitudes towards robots. This paper presents the design process and evidence for the validity of the Children's Openness to Interacting with a Robot Scale (COIRS). We report findings from a pilot test on a diverse population of 172 U.S. students between the ages of 8-11. High average scores on the COIRS suggested that children in this sample were highly open to interacting with a robot.