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  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Social Cognition

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  • Traditional laboratory studies of human social cognition face challenges when moved to real-world settings.
  • Transferring 2D observational paradigms to 3D interactive environments risks experimental control.
  • Humanoid robots offer a solution by acting as social interaction proxies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a methodological approach using humanoid robots for studying social cognition in interactive, real-world settings.
  • To demonstrate the adaptability of classical cognitive psychology paradigms to interactive scenarios with robots.
  • To validate the reliability and replicability of this approach across different laboratories and cultures.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing humanoid robots as social interaction partners within experimental protocols.
  • Adapting established cognitive psychology paradigms (gaze-cueing, shared experience) for interactive robot-led scenarios.
  • Replicating studies across two distinct international laboratories (Italy and Singapore) to ensure cross-cultural validity.

Main Results:

  • Successful replication of interactive gaze-cueing and shared experience paradigms across different labs.
  • Demonstrated reliability and replicability of complex social interaction protocols involving robots.
  • Consistent results obtained across different cultural contexts, supporting the method's robustness.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed methodology using humanoid robots enhances the naturalness of social interaction studies while maintaining experimental control.
  • This approach facilitates reliable and highly replicable research in social cognition, particularly beneficial for cross-cultural comparisons.
  • Humanoid robots serve as valuable tools for advancing the study of socio-cognitive mechanisms in ecologically valid settings.