1. Robot-initiated joint attention.
Robot-initiated joint attention. The robot models appropriate social gaze behavior by demonstrating context-contingent gaze and facilitates mutual gaze and experience sharing between the child and the caregiver. When the child is engaged with the robot (A), the robot directs the child’s attention to relevant task content on the screen (B). As the child’s attention shifts to the robot-directed focus on the screen, the robot then attempts to redirect gaze to the caregiver (C) in the hope of redirecting the child’s visual attention to the caregiver (D). (These demonstration images were recreated in the laboratory to show both robot and child behavior because this perspective was not recorded by the deployed system.)‏
Brian Scassellati et al. Sci. Robotics 2018;3:eaat7544
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