As the role of service robots has become increasingly important in service encounters,
existing literature has widely adopted the technology acceptance model to understand …

This paper examines how people's trust and dependence on robot teammates providing
decision support varies as a function of different attributes of the robot, such as perceived …

This article reviews methods to investigate joint attention and highlights the benefits of new
methodological approaches that make use of the most recent technological developments …

Gaze following occurs automatically in social interactions, but the degree to which gaze is
followed depends on whether an agent is perceived to have a mind, making its behavior …

Abstract Theory of Mind is an inferential system central to human–human communication by
which people ascribe mental states to self and other, and then use those deductions to make …

Most experimental protocols examining joint attention with the gaze cueing paradigm are
“observational” and “offline”, thereby not involving social interaction. We examined whether …

Humanlike but not perfectly human agents frequently evoke feelings of eeriness, a
phenomenon termed the Uncanny Valley (UV). The Categorical Perception Hypothesis …

The present study aims at investigating how eye contact established by a humanoid robot
affects engagement in human-robot interaction (HRI). To this end, we combined explicit …

Sensorimotor signaling is a key mechanism underlying coordination in humans. The
increasing presence of artificial agents, including robots, in everyday contexts, will make …

Eye contact constitutes a strong communicative signal in human interactions and has been
shown to modulate various cognitive processes and states. However, little is known about its …