Directing Attention Through Gaze Hints Improves Task Solving in Human–Humanoid Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21199715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eunice Mwangi (Eindhoven University of Technology, corresponding author), Emilia Barakova (0000-0001-5688-4878, Eindhoven University of Technology), Emilia I Barakova, Marta Díaz Boladeras (0000-0001-8215-0499, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Marta Díaz-Boladeras, Andreu Catalá (0000-0001-8775-1955, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Andreu Catala Mallofre, Matthias Rauterberg (0000-0002-2596-395X, Eindhoven University of Technology) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 343-355 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Robotics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1875-4791 • E-ISSN: 1875-4805 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12369-018-0473-8 |
| PMID | 30996753 |
| OpenAlex | W2788318293 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
In this paper, we report an experimental study designed to examine how participants perceive and interpret social hints from gaze exhibited by either a robot or a human tutor when carrying out a matching task. The underlying notion is that knowing where an agent is looking at provides cues that can direct attention to an object of interest during the activity. In this regard, we asked human participants to play a card matching game in the presence of either a human or a robotic tutor under two conditions. In one case, the tutor gave hints to help the participant find the matching cards by gazing toward the correct match, in the other case, the tutor only looked at the participants and did not give them any help. The performance was measured based on the time and the number of tries taken to complete the game. Results show that gaze hints (helping tutor) made the matching task significantly easier (fewer tries) with the robot tutor. Furthermore, we found out that the robots' gaze hints were recognized significantly more often than the human tutor gaze hints, and consequently, the participants performed significantly better with the robot tutor. The reported study provides new findings towards the use of non-verbal gaze hints in human-robot interaction, and lays out new design implications, especially for robot-based educative interventions
Cognitive psychology · Computer vision · Gaze · Human–computer interaction · Humanoid robot · Mechatronics · Robot · Computer Science · Engineering · Face Recognition and Perception · Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology · Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |