Abolfazl Zaraki
Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot
Zaraki, Abolfazl; Mazzei, Daniele; Giuliani, Manuel; De Rossi, Danilo
Authors
Daniele Mazzei
Manuel Giuliani Manuel.Giuliani@uwe.ac.uk
Co- Director Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Danilo De Rossi
Abstract
This paper describes a context-dependent social gaze-control system implemented as part of a humanoid social robot. The system enables the robot to direct its gaze at multiple humans who are interacting with each other and with the robot. The attention mechanism of the gaze-control system is based on features that have been proven to guide human attention: nonverbal and verbal cues, proxemics, the visual field of view, and the habituation effect. Our gaze-control system uses Kinect skeleton tracking together with speech recognition and SHORE-based facial expression recognition to implement the same features. As part of a pilot evaluation, we collected the gaze behavior of 11 participants in an eye-tracking study. We showed participants videos of two-person interactions and tracked their gaze behavior. A comparison of the human gaze behavior with the behavior of our gaze-control system running on the same videos shows that it replicated human gaze behavior 89% of the time. © 2013 IEEE.
Citation
Zaraki, A., Mazzei, D., Giuliani, M., & De Rossi, D. (2014). Designing and evaluating a social gaze-control system for a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 44(2), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2303083
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 19, 2014 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2014 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems |
Electronic ISSN | 2168-2305 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 44 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 157-168 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2303083 |
Keywords | active vision, context-dependent social gaze behavior, human-robot interaction, scene analysis, social attention |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/821297 |
Publisher URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2014.2303083 |
Related Public URLs | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6736067/?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6736067&queryText%3DDesigning%20and%20Evaluating%20a%20Social%20Gaze%20Control%20System%20for%20a%20Humanoid%20Robot |
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