Controlling Human Attention through Robot's Gaze Behaviors | Electrical Projects
Controlling Human Attention through Robot's Gaze Behaviors
Abstract
Controlling someone's attention can be defined as shifting
his/her attention from the existing direction to another. However, it is not
easy task for a robot to shift a particular human's attention if they are not
in face-to-face situation.
If the robot would like to communicate a particular person,
it should turn its gaze to that person and make eye contact to establish mutual
gaze. However, only such a turning action is not enough to set up eye contact
when the robot and the target person are not facing each other.
Therefore, the robot should perform some actions so that it
can attract the target person and meet their gaze. In this paper, we present a
robot that can attract a target person's attention by moving its head, make eye
contact through showing gaze awareness by blinking its eyes, and establish
joint attention by repeating its head turns from the person and the target
object. Experiments using twenty human participants confirm the
effectiveness of the robot actions to control human attention.
