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- Elgarf, Maha, et al.
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"And then what happens?" Promoting Children's Verbal Creativity Using a Robot
- 2022
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). - : IEEE. - 9781665407311 - 9781665407328 ; , s. 71-79
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- While creativity has been previously studied in Child-Robot interaction, the effect of regulatory focus on creativity skills has not been investigated. This paper presents an exploratory study that, for the first time, uses the Regulatory Focus Theory to assess children's creativity skills in an educational context with a social robot. We investigated whether two key emotional regulation techniques, promotion (approach) and prevention (avoidance), stimulate creativity during a storytelling activity between a child and a robot. We conducted a between-subjects field study with 69 children between the ages of 7 and 9 years old, divided between two study conditions: (1) promotion, where a social robot primes children for action by eliciting positive emotional states, and (2) prevention, where a social robot primes children for avoidance by evoking a states related to security and safety associated with blockage-oriented behaviors. To assess changes in creativity as a response to the priming interaction, children were asked to tell stories to the robot before (pre-test) and after (post-test) the priming interaction. We measured creativity levels by analyzing the verbal content of the stories. We coded verbal expressions related to creativity variables, including fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. Our results show that children in the promotion condition generated significantly more ideas, and their ideas were on average more original in the stories they created in the post-test rather than in the pre-test. We also modeled the process of creativity that emerges during storytelling in response to the robot's verbal behavior. This paper enriches the scientific understanding of creativity emergence in child-robot collaborative interactions.
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- Monzó, Patricia, et al.
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Experimental Validation of a Numerical Model for the Thermal Response of a Borehole Field
- 2014
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Ingår i: ASHRAE TRANSACTIONS 2014, VOL 120, PT 2. - : ASHRAE.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The design of borehole fields for ground coupled-heat pump systems is often based on so-called g-functions, a pre-calculated dimensionless temperature response to a step heat load. The g-function is specific to the borehole field geometry. For a long-term analysis of a particular borehole field, the average borehole wall temperature is obtained from the g-function and a temporal superposition of its thermal load steps. There are two accepted provisions for the g-function regarding the boundary condition used at (and along) the borehole wall: a constant heat flux at every instant of time, or a uniform temperature at constant total heat flow to the borehole field, respectively. In this paper, a numerical model is built up according to the geometrical characteristics and ground thermal properties of a 2x3 borehole demo site at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. The model is separately studied with regard to the two boundary conditions. The models are first compared in terms of their g-function, which are verified against reference solutions. Then, the daily fluid temperatures are obtained from each of these models with measured daily loads during a six year period. The results are compared with measured daily fluid temperatures for the sixth year of operation. The simulated values present, in general, a good agreement with the measured data. The results show that there are no significant differences with regard to the boundary conditions at the borehole wall, which for this specific case is due to the fact that the system is thermally balanced. The simulated temperatures are more accurate during cooling periods.
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