The National Science Foundation awarded Duke University $353,138 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the project "Collaborative Research: The Role of Trust when Learning from Robots" from October 1, 2021 to November 30, 2024. Duke will research child-robot interactions and children's learning processes when social cues to an educational robot's agency and role are manipulated. A graduate student at Cornell University will conduct experiments under a subaward as part of the project, studying children ages 4-10 and how they learn from social interactions with robots. The funding will support research into whether shifting a robot's perceived agency between social agent and inanimate tool impacts interpersonal properties typically attributed only to agents, and whether this changes children's learning outcomes.
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