Mutual gaze with a robot affects human neural activity and delays decision-making processes

M Belkaid, K Kompatsiari, D De Tommaso, I Zablith… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
In most everyday life situations, the brain needs to engage not only in making decisions but
also in anticipating and predicting the behavior of others. In such contexts, gaze can be …

Robotic versus human coaches for active aging: an automated social presence perspective

M Čaić, J Avelino, D Mahr… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
This empirical study compares elderly people's social perception of human versus robotic
coaches in the context of an active and healthy aging program. In evaluating hedonic and …

When performing actions with robots, attribution of intentionality affects the sense of joint agency

UP Navare, F Ciardo, K Kompatsiari, D De Tommaso… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Sense of joint agency (SoJA) is the sense of control experienced by humans when acting
with others to bring about changes in the shared environment. SoJA is proposed to arise …

Neural networks for optical vector and eye ball parameter estimation

W Fuhl, H Gao, E Kasneci - ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this work we evaluate neural networks, support vector machines and decision trees for the
regression of the center of the eyeball and the optical vector based on the pupil ellipse. In …

Action anticipation: Reading the intentions of humans and robots

NF Duarte, M Raković, J Tasevski… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans have the fascinating capacity of processing nonverbal visual cues to understand
and anticipate the actions of other humans. This “intention reading” ability is underpinned by …

It's in the eyes: The engaging role of eye contact in HRI

K Kompatsiari, F Ciardo, V Tikhanoff, G Metta… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
This paper reports a study where we examined how a humanoid robot was evaluated by
users, dependent on established eye contact. In two experiments, the robot was …

On the role of eye contact in gaze cueing

K Kompatsiari, F Ciardo, V Tikhanoff, G Metta… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Most experimental protocols examining joint attention with the gaze cueing paradigm are
“observational” and “offline”, thereby not involving social interaction. We examined whether …

Eye contact during joint attention with a humanoid robot modulates oscillatory brain activity

K Kompatsiari, F Bossi… - Social cognitive and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive
processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses to eye contact …

[PDF][PDF] Belief in sharing the same phenomenological experience increases the likelihood of adopting the intentional stance toward a humanoid robot

S Marchesi, D De Tommaso, J Perez-Osorio… - 2022 - assets.pubpub.org
Humans interpret and predict others' behaviors by ascribing intentions or beliefs, or in other
words, by adopting the intentional stance. Since artificial agents are increasingly populating …

Measuring engagement elicited by eye contact in Human-Robot Interaction

K Kompatsiari, F Ciardo, D De Tommaso… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The present study aims at investigating how eye contact established by a humanoid robot
affects engagement in human-robot interaction (HRI). To this end, we combined explicit …