Experiments
Here are our selected experiments at a glance.
Attentional capture in natural environments
How, and to what extent, generic human-like behavioural characteristics can trigger adopting the intentional stance to the robot? The first step is to quantitatively analyse the parameters of human reactions to distracting stimuli in a naturalistic environment. As a second step, those behavioural characteristics will be copied on a robot, and participants will observe either a human-like robot reactive to the environment, or a mechanistic behaviour.
Inferring intentions from observed gaze
How do humans infer and differentiate others’ communicative intentions in gaze behavior? Would participants recognise communicative gaze patterns in behaviour on the iCub robot?
Gaze leading and gaze following in HRI
How does successful vs. unsuccessful initiation of joint attention with robots affects engagement with them, subsequent interaction, and attribution of human-like traits?
Action expectations and gaze following in HRI
Is gaze following during HRI influenced by violation of expectations regarding goal- oriented action sequences?
Mutual gaze in joint attention
Does mutual gaze influence fundamental mechanism of attention?
Dynamic structure of cooperative and competitive joint actions
What is the dynamical structure of joint action behavior in the traditional social Simon task during HRI?