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Risk Willingness in Play: Exploring Children's Behaviour in a Virtual Reality Playground
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Ole Johan Sando; Rasmus Kleppe; Ellen Beate Hansen Sandseter – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
Understanding children's willingness to take risks is crucial for sound educational strategies and play environments. This study investigates children's risk willingness using a virtual reality (VR) playground balancing scenario and examines its associations with sensation-seeking personality trait, age, gender, and the likelihood of failing the…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Child Behavior, Computer Simulation
Using an AI-Driven Child Chatbot Avatar as a Training Tool for Information Gathering Skills of Dental and Medical Professionals: A Pilot Study
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Hayley Ko; Ewa A. Szyszko Hovden; Unni-Mette Stamnes Köpp; Miriam S. Johnson; Gunn Astrid Baugerud – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
Healthcare professionals often receive limited training in information gathering, especially for cases of suspected child maltreatment. This pilot study evaluated a brief interview training program using an artificial intelligence-driven child avatar chatbot to simulate realistic encounters with children. GPT-3 and one-shot prompting were used to…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Dentistry, Graduate Students