2010 Special Issue: "Social" robots are psychological agents for infants: A test of gaze following

Authors:
Andrew N. Meltzoff;Rechele Brooks;Aaron P. Shon;Rajesh P. N. Rao
Affiliations:
Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA;Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, University of Washington, Box 357920, Seattle, WA 98195, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Venue:
Neural Networks
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Gaze following is a key component of human social cognition. Gaze following directs attention to areas of high information value and accelerates social, causal, and cultural learning. An issue for both robotic and infant learning is whose gaze to follow. The hypothesis tested in this study is that infants use information derived from an entity's interactions with other agents as evidence about whether that entity is a perceiver. A robot was programmed so that it could engage in communicative, imitative exchanges with an adult experimenter. Infants who saw the robot act in this social-communicative fashion were more likely to follow its line of regard than those without such experience. Infants use prior experience with the robot's interactions as evidence that the robot is a psychological agent that can see. Infants want to look at what the robot is seeing, and thus shift their visual attention to the external target.