Social Skill Acquisition Model through Face-to-Face Interaction: Local Contingency for Open-Ended Development

Social Skill Acquisition Model through Face-to-Face Interaction: Local Contingency for Open-Ended Development

Behavior associated with joint attention is among the most important human functionalities for communicating with others. Previous studies indicate that even a robot can learn these behavioral patterns as social skills through interaction with a modeled/real caregiver by contingency evaluation. However, existing mechanisms are too time-consuming, especially for implementation on a real-world in...

Modeling face-to-face social interaction networks

Social Gaze Behavior for Face to Face Human-Robot Interaction

This short paper discusses the importance of human-like gaze behaviors for humanoid robots with physical eyes. It gives a brief overview of the functions gaze fullfills in human-human interactions from a social evolutionary perspective. In the second part we describe how human-like gaze has been implemented in robot in the research field of social robotics in the last years. The last part of th...

Mobile Support for Face-to-Face Social Interaction

INTRODUCTION Mobile devices allow people to connect with the rest of the world from anywhere. People can now be reached regardless of where they are. If a child gets injured at a school, for example, their teacher can connect with a parent immediately, even if the parent is not at home or work. People can also access information from anywhere. Before ordering dinner at a new restaurant, a diner...

Analyzing Gaze During Face-to-Face Interaction

We present here the analysis of multimodal data gathered during realistic face-to-face interaction of a target speaker with a number of interlocutors. Videos and gaze have been monitored with an experimental setup using coupled cameras and screens with integrated eye trackers. With the aim to understand the functions of gaze in social interaction and to develop a coherent gaze control model for...