The PInSoRo Dataset (or Freeplay Sandbox Dataset) is an open-data dataset of child-child and child-robot social interactions. It contains over 45 hours of hand-coded RGB-D video recordings of social interactions between 45 child-child pairs and 30 child-robot pairs, with a total of 120 children. These interactions are recorded during little-constrained free play episodes. They emcompass a rich and diverse set of social behaviours occurring in natural social interactions between children. In addition to annotations of social constructs, the dataset includes fully calibrated video recordings, 3D recordings of the faces, skeletal informations, full audio recordings, as well as game interactions.
The free-play sandbox task is based on face-to-face free-play interactions, mediated by a large, horizontal touchscreen. Pairs of children (or alternatively, one child and one robot) are invited to freely draw and interact with items displayed on an interactive table, without any explicit goals set by the experimenter. The task is designed so that children can engage in open-ended and non-directive play. Yet, it is sufficiently constrained to be suitable for recording, and allows the reproduction of social behaviour by an artificial agent in comparable conditions.
@article{lemaignan2018pinsoro,
author = {Lemaignan, Séverin AND Edmunds, Charlotte E. R. AND Senft, Emmanuel AND Belpaeme, Tony},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0205999},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
month = {10},
number = {10},
pages = {1-19},
publisher = {Public Library of Science},
title = {The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics},
volume = {13},
year = {2018}
}
