Why Do Children Abuse Robots?

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

• Publication date

  2015-03-02

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/2701973.2701977
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