5 papers
Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities
Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian +1
Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunit…
Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication
Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu +2
The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they…
Designing Robots for Families: In-Situ Prototyping for Contextual Reminders on Family Routines
Michael F. Xu, Enhui Zhao, Yawen Zhang +3
Robots are increasingly entering the daily lives of families, yet their successful integration into domestic life remains a challenge. We explore family routines as a critical entr…
Exploring the Use of Robots for Diary Studies
Michael F. Xu, Bilge Mutlu
As interest in studying in-the-wild human-robot interaction grows, there is a need for methods to collect data over time and in naturalistic or potentially private environments. HR…
Robots in Family Routines: Development of and Initial Insights from the Family-Robot Routines Inventory
Michael F. Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Joseph Michaelis +2
Despite advances in areas such as the personalization of robots, sustaining adoption of robots for long-term use in families remains a challenge. Recent studies have identified int…