Noticing Extroversion Effects Attention: How Robot and Participant Personality Affect Gaze Cueing

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1557-1561
Author(s):  
Ali Momen ◽  
Eva Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Cueing ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Positive Effects

Social robots with expressive gaze have positive effects on human-robot interaction. In particular, research suggests that when robots are programmed to express introverted or extroverted gaze behavior, individuals enjoy interacting more with robots that match their personality. However, how this affects social-cognitive performance during human-robot interactions has not been thoroughly examined yet. In the current paper, we examine whether the perceived match between human and robot personality positively affects the degree to which the robot’s gaze is followed (i.e., gaze cueing, as a proxy for more complex social-cognitive behavior). While social attention has been examined extensively outside of human-robot interaction, recent research shows that a robot’s gaze is attended to in a similar way as a human’s gaze. While our results did not support the hypothesis that gaze cueing would be strongest when the participant’s personality matched the robot’s personality, we did find evidence that participants followed the gaze of introverted robots more strongly than the gaze of extroverted robots. This finding suggests that agent’s displaying extroverted gaze behavior may hurt performance in human-robot interaction.

scholarly journals Noticing Extraversion Effects Attention: How Robot and Participant Personality Affect Social Attention

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Momen ◽  
Eva Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Cueing ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Positive Effects

Social robots with expressive gaze have positive effects on human-robot interaction. In particular, research suggests that when robots are programmed to express introverted or extraverted gaze behavior, individuals enjoy interacting more with robots that match their personality. However, how this affects social-cognitive performance during human-robot interactions has not been thoroughly examined yet. In the current paper, we examine whether the perceived match between human and robot personality positively affects the degree to which the robot’s gaze is followed (i.e., gaze cueing, as a proxy for more complex social-cognitive behavior). While social attention has been examined extensively outside of human-robot interaction, recent research shows that a robot’s gaze is attended to in a similar way as a human’s gaze. While our results did not support the hypothesis that gaze cueing would be strongest when the participant’s personality matched the robot’s personality, we did find evidence that participants followed the gaze of introverted robots more strongly than the gaze of extroverted robots. This finding suggests that agent’s displaying extraverted gaze behavior may hurt performance in human-robot interaction

Survey of Social Touch Interaction Between Humans and Robots

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Masahiro Shiomi ◽  
Hidenobu Sumioka ◽  
Hiroshi Ishiguro ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Topic ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
Touch Interaction

In human-human interaction, social touch provides several merits, from both physical and mental perspectives. The physical existence of robots helps them reproduce human-like social touch, during their interaction with people. Such social touch shows positive effects, similar to those observed in human-human interaction. Therefore, social touch is a growing research topic in the field of human-robot interaction. This survey provides an overview of the work conducted so far on this topic.

scholarly journals Robot Gaze Behavior Affects Honesty in Human-Robot Interaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elef Schellen ◽  
Francesco Bossi ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Deceptive Behavior

As the use of humanoid robots proliferates, an increasing amount of people may find themselves face-to-“face” with a robot in everyday life. Although there is a plethora of information available on facial social cues and how we interpret them in the field of human-human social interaction, we cannot assume that these findings flawlessly transfer to human-robot interaction. Therefore, more research on facial cues in human-robot interaction is required. This study investigated deception in human-robot interaction context, focusing on the effect that eye contact with a robot has on honesty towards this robot. In an iterative task, participants could assist a humanoid robot by providing it with correct information, or potentially secure a reward for themselves by providing it with incorrect information. Results show that participants are increasingly honest after the robot establishes eye contact with them, but only if this is in response to deceptive behavior. Behavior is not influenced by the establishment of eye contact if the participant is actively engaging in honest behavior. These findings support the notion that humanoid robots can be perceived as, and treated like, social agents, since the herein described effect mirrors one present in human-human social interaction.

scholarly journals In natural interaction with embodied robots, we prefer it when they follow our gaze: a gaze-contingent mobile eyetracking study

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1771) ◽  
pp. 20180036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesco Willemse ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Joint Attention ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Natural Interaction ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Right

Initiating joint attention by leading someone's gaze is a rewarding experience which facilitates social interaction. Here, we investigate this experience of leading an agent's gaze while applying a more realistic paradigm than traditional screen-based experiments. We used an embodied robot as our main stimulus and recorded participants' eye movements. Participants sat opposite a robot that had either of two ‘identities’—‘Jimmy’ or ‘Dylan’. Participants were asked to look at either of two objects presented on screens to the left and the right of the robot. Jimmy then looked at the same object in 80% of the trials and at the other object in the remaining 20%. For Dylan, this proportion was reversed. Upon fixating on the object of choice, participants were asked to look back at the robot's face. We found that return-to-face saccades were conducted earlier towards Jimmy when he followed the gaze compared with when he did not. For Dylan, there was no such effect. Additional measures indicated that our participants also preferred Jimmy and liked him better. This study demonstrates (a) the potential of technological advances to examine joint attention where ecological validity meets experimental control, and (b) that social reorienting is enhanced when we initiate joint attention. This article is part of the theme issue ‘From social brains to social robots: applying neurocognitive insights to human–robot interaction’.

Different gaze behavior in human-robot interaction in Asperger's syndrome: An eye-tracking study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Damm ◽  
Karoline Malchus ◽  
Petra Jaecks ◽  
Soeren Krach ◽  
Frieder Paulus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Asperger's Syndrome ◽  
Asperger’S Syndrome ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction

The Race Between Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Anshu Saxena Arora ◽  
Amit Arora
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Cognitive Intelligence ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
Human Ability

Research on human-robot interaction (HRI) is growing; however, focus on the congruent socio-behavioral HRI research fields of social cognition, socio-behavioral intentions, and code of ethics is lacking. Humans possess an inherent ability of integrating perception, cognition, and action; while robots may have limitations as they may not recognize an object or a being, navigate a terrain, and/or comprehend written or verbal language and instructions. This HRI research focuses on issues and challenges for both humans and robots from social, behavioral, technical, and ethical perspectives. The human ability to anthropomorphize robots and adoption of ‘intentional mindset' toward robots through xenocentrism have added new dimensions to HRI. Robotic anthropomorphism plays a significant role in how humans can be successful companions of robots. This research explores social cognitive intelligence versus artificial intelligence with a focus on privacy protections and ethical implications of HRI while designing robots that are ethical, cognitively and artificially intelligent, and social human-like agents.

scholarly journals Say What You Are Looking At: An Attention-Based Interactive System for Autistic Children

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7426
Author(s):  
Furong Deng ◽  
Yu Zhou ◽  
Sifan Song ◽  
Zijian Jiang ◽  
Lifu Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Following ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Interactive System ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Intention Understanding ◽  
First Time ◽  
Children’S Rehabilitation ◽  
Image Caption

Gaze-following is an effective way for intention understanding in human–robot interaction, which aims to follow the gaze of humans to estimate what object is being observed. Most of the existing methods require people and objects to appear in the same image. Due to the limitation in the view of the camera, these methods are not applicable in practice. To address this problem, we propose a method of gaze following that utilizes a geometric map for better estimation. With the help of the map, this method is competitive for cross-frame estimation. On the basis of this method, we propose a novel gaze-based image caption system, which has been studied for the first time. Our experiments demonstrate that the system follows the gaze and describes objects accurately. We believe that this system is competent for autistic children’s rehabilitation training, pension service robots, and other applications.

scholarly journals Robot Gaze Behavior Affects Honesty in Human-Robot Interaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elef Schellen ◽  
Francesco Bossi ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Eye Contact ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Deceptive Behavior

As the use of humanoid robots proliferates, an increasing amount of people may find themselves face-to-“face” with a robot in everyday life. Although there is a plethora of information available on facial social cues and how we interpret them in the field of human-human social interaction, we cannot assume that these findings flawlessly transfer to human-robot interaction. Therefore, more research on facial cues in human-robot interaction is required. This study investigated deception in human-robot interaction context, focusing on the effect that eye contact with a robot has on honesty toward this robot. In an iterative task, participants could assist a humanoid robot by providing it with correct information, or potentially secure a reward for themselves by providing it with incorrect information. Results show that participants are increasingly honest after the robot establishes eye contact with them, but only if this is in response to deceptive behavior. Behavior is not influenced by the establishment of eye contact if the participant is actively engaging in honest behavior. These findings support the notion that humanoid robots can be perceived as, and treated like, social agents, since the herein described effect mirrors one present in human-human social interaction.

Repetitive robot behavior negatively impacts perceptions of intentionality and gaze performance in HRI

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulaziz Abubshait ◽  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Short Exposure ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Exposure Condition ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Gaze Cueing ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Attention Orienting ◽  
Gaze Cues

Gaze behavior is an important social signal between humans as it communicates locations of interest. People typically orient their attention to where others look, as this informs about others’ intentions and future actions. Studies have shown that humans can engage in similar gaze behavior with robots, but presumably more so when they adopt the intentional stance towards them (i.e., believing robot behaviors are intentional). In laboratory settings, the phenomenon of attending towards the direction of others’ gaze has been examined with the use of the gaze-cueing paradigm. While the gaze-cueing paradigm has been successful in investigating the relationship between adopting the intentional stance towards robots and attention orienting to gaze cues, it is unclear if the repetitiveness of the gaze-cueing paradigm influences adopting the intentional stance. Here, we examined if the duration of exposure to repetitive robot gaze behavior in a gaze-cueing task has a negative impact on subjective attribution of intentionality. Participants performed a short, medium, or long face-to-face gaze-cueing paradigm with an embodied robot while subjective ratings were collected pre and post the interaction. Results show that participants in the long exposure condition had the smallest change in their intention attribution scores, if any, while those in the short exposure condition had a positive change in their intention attribution indicating that participants attributed more intention to the robot after short interactions. The results also show that attention orienting to robot gaze-cues was positively related to how much intention was attributed to the robot, but this relationship became more negative as the length of exposure increased. On the contrary of subjective ratings, the gaze cueing effects increased as a function of the duration of exposure to repetitive behavior. The data suggest a tradeoff between the desired number of trials needed for observing various mechanisms of social cognition, such as gaze cueing effects, and the likelihood of adopting the intentional stance towards a robot.

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