Sense of joint agency (SoJA) is the sense of control experienced by humans when acting
with others to bring about changes in the shared environment. SoJA is proposed to arise …

In most everyday life situations, the brain needs to engage not only in making decisions but
also in anticipating and predicting the behavior of others. In such contexts, gaze can be …

This empirical study compares elderly people's social perception of human versus robotic
coaches in the context of an active and healthy aging program. In evaluating hedonic and …

In this work we evaluate neural networks, support vector machines and decision trees for the
regression of the center of the eyeball and the optical vector based on the pupil ellipse. In …

Humans have the fascinating capacity of processing nonverbal visual cues to understand
and anticipate the actions of other humans. This “intention reading” ability is underpinned by …

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 …

Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive
processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses to eye contact …

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

Humans interpret and predict others' behaviors by ascribing intentions or beliefs, or in other
words, by adopting the intentional stance. Since artificial agents are increasingly populating …

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 …