Robot Faces that Follow Gaze Facilitate Attentional Engagement and Increase Their Likeability

Gaze behavior of humanoid robots is an efficient mechanism for cueing our spatial orienting, but less is known about the cognitive–affective consequences of robots responding to human directional cues. Here, we examined how the extent to which a humanoid robot (iCub) avatar directed its gaze to the...

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Main Authors: Cesco Willemse, Serena Marchesi, Agnieszka Wykowska
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00070/full