U.S., Feb. 6 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07389902) titled 'Impact of Conversational Approaches in Pediatric Social Robot-Mediated Interventions' on Jan. 29.

Brief Summary: This study examines how different robot dialogue systems (rule-based vs. large language model-based) and content types (emotional support vs. safety education) affect pediatric patients' responses during hospital-based robot-mediated interventions.

Approximately 60 pediatric patients aged 2-9 years will be randomly assigned to interact with a social robot (LIKU) using either rule-based or LLM-based dialogue. Each child will participate in two activity sessions (emotional content and safety content) in randomized order.

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