Robot Faces that Follow Gaze Facilitate Attentional Engagement and Increase Their Likeability.

ABSTRACT: Gaze behavior of humanoid robots is an efficient mechanism for cueing our spatial orienting, but less is known about the cognitive-affective consequences of robots responding to human directional cues. Here, we examined how the extent to which a humanoid robot (iCub) avatar directed its gaze to the same objects as our participants affected engagement with the robot, subsequent gaze-cueing, and subjective ratings of the robot's characteristic traits. In a gaze-contingent eyetracking task, participants were asked to indicate a preference for one of two objects with their gaze while an iCub avatar was presented between the object photographs. In one condition, the iCub then shifted its gaze toward the object chosen by a participant in 80% of the trials (joint condition) and in the other condi

SUBMITTER: Willemse C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807394 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature