Proactive approach of making eye contact with the target human in multi-party settings

Establishing eye contact with the target agent plays a central role both in human-human and human-robot communications. However, it is not so easy task for the robot to meet eye contact with a particular human. Especially, when the robot and the target human are facing each other initially or the ta...

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Published in16th Int'l Conf. Computer and Information Technology pp. 191 - 196
Main Authors Hoque, Mohammed Moshiul, Das, Dipankar, Kobabashi, Yoshinori, Kuno, Yoshinori, Deb, Kaushik
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2014
Subjects
Cameras
Computers
eye contact
Face
gaze awareness
gaze crossing
Human-robot interaction
Magnetic heads
Robot sensing systems
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DOI10.1109/ICCITechn.2014.6997371

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Summary:Establishing eye contact with the target agent plays a central role both in human-human and human-robot communications. However, it is not so easy task for the robot to meet eye contact with a particular human. Especially, when the robot and the target human are facing each other initially or the target human is intensely involved his/her task. In this paper, we proposed a conceptual model of eye contact for social robots consisting of three parts: attracting attention, establishing gaze crossing, and displaying gaze awareness. Evaluation experiments with 36 participants reveal the effectiveness of the proposed model in three viewing situations (near peripheral field of view, far peripheral field of view, and out of field of view).
DOI:10.1109/ICCITechn.2014.6997371