The robot eyes don't have it. The presence of eyes on collaborative robots yields marginally higher user trust but lower performance

Eye gaze is a prominent feature of human social lives, but little is known on whether fitting eyes on machines makes humans trust them more. In this study we compared subjective and objective markers of human trust when collaborating with eyed and non-eyed robots of the same type. We used virtual re...

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Main Authors: Artur Pilacinski, Ana Pinto, Soraia Oliveira, Eduardo Araújo, Carla Carvalho, Paula Alexandra Silva, Ricardo Matias, Paulo Menezes, Sonia Sousa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-08-01
Series:Heliyon
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023053720