It’s in the Eyes: The Engaging Role of Eye Contact in HRI

• DOI: 10.1007/s12369-019-00565-4
• Publication Date: 2019-06-05T09:03:19Z
• Authors: Kyveli Kompatsiari; Francesca Ciardo; Vadim Tikhanoff; Giorgio Metta; Agnieszka Wykowska
• Keywords: Eye contact; Human–robot interaction; Social robot

This paper reports a study where we examined how a humanoid robot was evaluated by users, dependent on established eye contact. In two experiments, the robot was programmed to either establish eye ...