Child development

Realistic child robot “Affetto” for understanding the caregiver-child attachment relationship that guides the child development

Hisashi Ishihara, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Minoru Asada

Citations: 48 • 2011

Exploring the effects of “productive children: coding and robotics education program” in early childhood education

Merve Canbeldek, Nesrin Işıkoğlu

Citations: 39 • 2022

The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies.

Teresa Flanagan, Gavin Wong, Tamar Kushnir

Citations: 29 • 2023

Detection of sensorimotor contingencies in infants before the age of 1 year: A comprehensive review.

Lisa Jacquey, Jacqueline Fagard, Rana Esseily, J. Kevin Ο’Regan

Citations: 24 • 2020

Preschool children overimitate robots, but do so less than they overimitate humans

Kristyn Sommer, Rebecca M. Davidson, Kristy L. Armitage, Virginia Slaughter, Janet Wiles, Mark Nielsen

Citations: 23 • 2019

The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics

Irina Rudenko, Andrey Rudenko, Achim J. Lilienthal, Kai O. Arras, Barbara Bruno

Citations: 19 • 2024

The man and the machine: Do children learn from and transmit tool-use knowledge acquired from a robot in ways that are comparable to a human model?

Frankie T. K. Fong, Kristyn Sommer, Jonathan Redshaw, Jemima Kang, Mark Nielsen

Citations: 11 • 2021

Rethinking Children’s Connections with Other Animals: A Childhoodnature Perspective

Gail F. Melson

Citations: 8 • 2020

Growing-Up Hand in Hand with Robots

Cristina Zaga, Vicky Charisi, Bob R. Schadenberg, Dennis Reidsma, Mark A. Neerincx, Tony J. Prescott, Michael Zillich, Paul F. M. J. Verschure, Vanessa Evers

Citations: 8 • 2017

Behavioral inhibition as an early life predictor of callous-unemotional traits

Anna L. Dapprich, Anna Tyborowska, H. Niermann, Eni S. Becker, Antonius H. N. Cillessen, Karin Roelofs

Citations: 4 • 2022

Rethinking Children’s Connections with Other Animals: A Childhoodnature Perspective

Gail F. Melson

Citations: 4 • 2018

Getting Beyond the Robot Model of the Child Care Worker

Donald L. Peters, Suzanne Kasper Getz

Citations: 3 • 1986

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Social robots for child development: research hotspots, topic modeling, and collaborations

Xinghua Wang, Yu-Hsing Wang, Taghreed Ali Alsudais

Citations: 2 • 2025

From Blocks to Bots: The STEM Potential of Technology-Enhanced Toys in Early Childhood Education

Dimitra Bourha, Maria Hatzigianni, Trifaini Sidiropoulou, Michael Vitoulis

Citations: 2 • 2026