Theory of Mind for a Humanoid Robot
Autonomous Robots
Joint attention and language evolution
Connection Science - Social Learning in Embodied Agents
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Joint attention is a communicative activity that allows communicators to share perceptual experience by attending on a visual object. This communicative activity is conceptualized as a conditional probability over jointly given target candidates and cues. The joint relationship between them yields attentional cueing effects ---, i.e., an enhanced response if the two stimuli are consistent and slower, but a deteriorated response if not. With a computational model, a simulation was carried out to show the interesting properties of the model in which an attentional response is determined by the interaction between the target candidates and the cues. The model successfully locates a visual target object guided by an orientation cue from a pointing gesture. The result indicates that joint attention can be considered as a cooperative decision process on a visual object among many objects with a referential cue driven from an interlocutor.