Effects of robot gaze and voice human-likeness on users' subjective perception, visual attention, and cerebral activity in voice conversations

M Li, F Guo, X Wang, J Chen, J Ham - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Robot gaze and voice are essential anthropomorphic features to promote users'
engagement in voice conversations. Earlier research chiefly examined how robot gaze and …

Comparison of human social brain activity during eye-contact with another human and a humanoid robot

MS Kelley, JA Noah, X Zhang, B Scassellati… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Robot design to simulate interpersonal social interaction is an active area of research with
applications in therapy and companionship. Neural responses to eye-to-eye contact in …

Enhancing the sense of attention from an assistance mobile robot by improving eye-gaze contact from its iconic face displayed on a flat screen

E Rubies, J Palacín, E Clotet - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
One direct way to express the sense of attention in a human interaction is through the gaze.
This paper presents the enhancement of the sense of attention from the face of a human …

Virtual agents and risk-taking behavior in adolescence: the twofold nature of nudging

C Di Dio, F Manzi, L Miraglia, M Gummerum… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Peer pressure can influence risk-taking behavior and it is particularly felt during
adolescence. With artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly present in a range of everyday …

Mind the eyes: artificial agents' eye movements modulate attentional engagement and anthropomorphic attribution

D Ghiglino, C Willemse, D De Tommaso… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Artificial agents are on their way to interact with us daily. Thus, the design of embodied
artificial agents that can easily cooperate with humans is crucial for their deployment in …

Emotion components and understanding in humans and machines

J Bellon - … Machines: Perspectives from Affective Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
Part I of this chapter deals with conceptualizing emotion. By splitting up 'emotion'into an
evaluative, expressive, behavioural, physiological, mental and phenomenological …

Don't overthink: fast decision making combined with behavior variability perceived as more human-like

S Marchesi, J Pérez-Osorio… - 2020 29th IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the human cognitive processes involved in the interaction with artificial
agents is crucial for designing socially capable robots. During social interactions, humans …

I am looking for your mind: Pupil dilation predicts individual differences in sensitivity to hints of human-likeness in robot behavior

S Marchesi, F Bossi, D Ghiglino… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The presence of artificial agents in our everyday lives is continuously increasing. Hence, the
question of how human social cognition mechanisms are activated in interactions with …

Theory of mind and joint attention

J Perez-Osorio, E Wiese, A Wykowska - The Handbook on Socially …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
9ment of artificial agents. Social robots, virtual agents, and smart assistants have been
introduced slowly but firmly into our daily lives. From entertainment to edu cation, from …

The effect of individual differences and repetitive interactions on explicit and implicit attitudes towards robots

F Ciardo, D Ghiglino, C Roselli, A Wykowska - International conference on …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The exploitation of Social Assistive Robotics (SAR) will bring to the emergence of a
new category of users, namely experts in clinical rehabilitation, who do not have a …