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Collaborating with a robot biases human spatial attention

  • 0Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, 16152 Genoa, GE, Italy.
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July 3, 2025

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July 3, 2025

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Summary

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Human-robot interaction (HRI) can influence visual processing. Collaborative robots with hands can capture human attention, similar to human hands, affecting spatial awareness and body schema integration.

Area Of Science

  • Cognitive Science
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Neuroscience

Background

  • Human-robot interaction (HRI) is increasingly accessible.
  • The near-hand effect demonstrates how hand proximity enhances spatial attention.
  • Attentional priority can extend to a collaborator's hand, integrating it into the body schema.

Purpose Of The Study

  • To investigate if a robot's anthropomorphic hand can bias human attentional priority.
  • To understand how HRI influences human visual processing and body schema.
  • To identify social and kinematic factors enhancing attentional shifts in HRI.

Main Methods

  • Experimental investigation of human visual processing during collaborative HRI.
  • Comparison of target detection near a robot's hand before and after interaction.
  • Analysis of social and kinematic cues influencing joint body schema formation.

Main Results

  • Collaborative HRI facilitated target detection near the robot's hand.
  • This attentional bias was absent prior to the interaction.
  • Specific social and kinematic metrics were found to enhance joint body schema formation and attentional shifts.

Conclusions

  • HRI can significantly shape human visual processing and attentional biases.
  • Robotic hands can be integrated into the human body schema during collaboration.
  • Findings offer insights into the perceptual and cognitive effects of interacting with robotic systems.

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