{"id":6881,"date":"2022-09-01T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/children-more-candid-about-mental-health-when-talking-to-robot-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:38:44","slug":"children-more-candid-about-mental-health-when-talking-to-robot-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/children-more-candid-about-mental-health-when-talking-to-robot-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Children more candid about mental health when talking to robot, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge research finds 60cm-tall humanoid called Nao helped children open up about feelings<\/p>\n<p>The Nao robot looks more like a prop from a low-budget sci-fi film than the cutting edge of medical research. But a study found that children felt more comfortable confiding in the child-sized, quizzical-looking humanoid than when responding to mental health assessments with their parents, in some cases disclosing information that they had not previously shared.<\/p>\n<p>The team, from the University of Cambridge, say the findings suggest a wider role for robots in assessing children\u2019s mental health \u2013 although they said that they would not be intended as a substitute for professional mental health support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/sep\/01\/children-mental-health-talking-robot-study-cambridge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/923e999c85695caf0511d471aec90d534024c287\/0_438_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=537ff888aee089464ac38cc880fd8fce\" title=\"Children more candid about mental health when talking to robot, study finds\" \/>Cambridge research finds 60cm-tall humanoid called Nao helped children open up about feelings<br \/>\nThe Nao robot looks more like a prop from a low-budget sci-fi film than the cutting edge of medical research. But a study found that children felt more comfortable confiding in the child-sized, quizzical-looking humanoid than when responding to mental health assessments with their parents, in some cases disclosing information that they had not previously shared.<br \/>\nThe team, from the University of Cambridge, say the findings suggest a wider role for robots in assessing children\u2019s mental health \u2013 although they said that they would not be intended as a substitute for professional mental health support. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge research finds 60cm-tall humanoid called Nao helped children open up about feelings The Nao robot looks more like a prop from a low-budget sci-fi film than the cutting edge of medical research. But a study found that children felt more comfortable confiding in the child-sized, quizzical-looking humanoid than when responding to mental health assessments &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/children-more-candid-about-mental-health-when-talking-to-robot-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children more candid about mental health when talking to robot, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}