More Than Meets the Eye? An Experimental Design to Test Robot Visual Perspective-Taking Facilitators Beyond Mere-Appearance

Currie, Joel, Mcdonough, Katrina Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7599-8317, Wykowska, Agnieszka, Giannaccini, Maria Elena and Bach, Patric (2024) More Than Meets the Eye? An Experimental Design to Test Robot Visual Perspective-Taking Facilitators Beyond Mere-Appearance. In: HRI 2024 Companion - Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, pp. 359-363. ISBN 9798400703232

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Abstract

Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) underpins human social interaction, from joint action to predicting others' future actions and mentalizing about their goals and affective/mental states. Substantial progress has been made in developing artificial VPT capabilities in robots. However, as conventional VPT tasks rely on the (non-situated, disembodied) presentation of robots on computer screens, it is unclear how a robot's socially reactive and goal-directed behaviours prompt people to take its perspective. We provide a novel experimental paradigm that robustly measures the extent to which human interaction partners take a robot's visual perspective during face-to-face human-robot-interactions, by measuring how much a robot's visual perspective is spontaneously integrated with one's own. The experimental task design of our upcoming user study allows us to investigate the role of robot features beyond its human-like appearance, which have driven research so far, targeting instead its socially reactive behaviour and task engagement with the human interaction partner.

Item Type: Book Section
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s)
Uncontrolled Keywords: human-robot interaction,humanoid robot,mind perception,non-verbal behaviours,perspective-taking,artificial intelligence,human-computer interaction,electrical and electronic engineering ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1700/1702
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
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Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2024 13:30
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2024 10:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96249
DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640684

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