Assessing children's first impressions of "WallBo" : a robotic handwashing buddy

Amol Deshmukh; Katie Riddoch; Emily S. Cross

doi:10.1145/3459990.3465174

Assessing children's first impressions of "WallBo" : a robotic handwashing buddy

Amol Deshmukh
, Katie Riddoch
, Emily S. Cross

Western Sydney University

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In this paper we present our preliminary results from the first trial conducted with "WallBo"a robotic buddy to improve handwashing for children in schools. The one-week trial was carried out in a Scottish school with 16 pupils, aged 6-7 in an ecologically valid setting. The 1:1 interaction with WallBo resulted in 86.25% handwashing compliance, a 33.25% improvement from the baseline handwashing technique pre-WallBo training, and an overall, ≈ 35% improvement on knowledge about hand hygiene. We also report some insights about perceptions about WallBo in this paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Interaction Design and Children (IDC), June 24-30, 2021, Online
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	521-526
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450384520
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3465174
Publication status	Published - 24 Jun 2021
Event	Interaction Design and Children - Duration: 24 Jun 2021 → …

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Conference	Interaction Design and Children
Period	24/06/21 → …

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