Roball interacting with children

Summary form only given. This video shows a light hearted view of a rolling autonomous robot named Roball. Roball is shown interacting with various children who age from 10 months old to teenagers at a high school. The clips show the different ways children interact with Roball and also the different types of reactions the children can have to Roball. Each clip was taken from a trial that was conducted to investigate Child-Robot Interaction (CRI). First we see the different reactions of young children (tikes) aged between 2 to 4 years. We see them laughing, chasing Roball, dancing to music that Roball is playing and also running away from Roball. It is possible to see how active this age group can be in there interaction. Next we see a 10 month old toddler enjoying hitting Roball and then we see this child apparently showing some form of affection to Roball. Then after watching Roball bang into a door we see the toddler copy the behaviour by also banging into the door. Proceeding is the very different style of interaction from teenagers. Despite Roball gaining a lot of interest the actual physical contact or interaction is much lower. We see the robot being purposefully kicked and also a teenager pretending to kick Roball in a show of bravado. Finally we see the dangers of being a rolling robot when in the presence of a group of teenagers, as Roball through random wandering rolls into the path of a group of teenagers walking at high speeds.