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  • Non-verbal communication
  • Social robotics

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  • Gaze cues are crucial for human conversation, managing turn-taking, joint attention, intimacy, and cognitive effort.
  • While robot gaze impact on humans is studied, human responses to robot gaze behavior remain less explored.
  • Gaze aversion is a key mechanism in human conversation to avoid prolonged mutual gaze.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a robot's gaze aversion influences human gaze aversion behavior.
  • To understand the reciprocal influence of gaze cues in human-robot interactions.

Main Methods:

  • A within-subjects user study with 33 participants was conducted.
  • The study compared human gaze behavior when robots maintained direct gaze versus employed timed gaze aversions.

Main Results:

  • Participants exhibited increased gaze aversion when the robot maintained continuous eye contact.
  • Conversely, participants showed less gaze aversion when the robot used well-timed gaze aversions.
  • This suggests a compensatory mechanism in human behavior.

Conclusions:

  • Robot gaze aversion significantly influences human gaze behavior.
  • Humans may use gaze aversion to regulate intimacy and compensate for a robot's perceived lack of reciprocal gaze aversion.
  • Findings inform the design of more naturalistic and comfortable human-robot interactions.