TY - GEN
T1 - Attention coupling as a prerequisite for social interaction
AU - Kozima, Hideki
AU - Nakagawa, Cocoro
AU - Yano, Hiroyuki
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper proposes "attention coupling", that is spatio-temporal coordination of each other's attention, as a prerequisite for human-robot social interaction, where the human interactant attributes mental states to the robot, and possibly vice versa. As a realization of attention coupling we implemented on our robots the capability of eye-contact (mutually looking into each other's eyes) and joint attention (looking at a shared target together). Observation of the interaction with human babies/children showed that the robots with the attention coupling capability facilitated in the babies/children social behavior, including showing, giving, and verbal interactions like asking questions.
AB - This paper proposes "attention coupling", that is spatio-temporal coordination of each other's attention, as a prerequisite for human-robot social interaction, where the human interactant attributes mental states to the robot, and possibly vice versa. As a realization of attention coupling we implemented on our robots the capability of eye-contact (mutually looking into each other's eyes) and joint attention (looking at a shared target together). Observation of the interaction with human babies/children showed that the robots with the attention coupling capability facilitated in the babies/children social behavior, including showing, giving, and verbal interactions like asking questions.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2003.1251814
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2003.1251814
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:21444445323
SN - 078038136X
SN - 9780780381360
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 109
EP - 114
BT - Proceedings - RO-MAN 2003
T2 - 12th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2003
Y2 - 31 October 2003 through 2 November 2003
ER -