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SSVEP-based Experimental Procedure for Brain-Robot Interaction with Humanoid Robots

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Collaborating with a robot biases human spatial attention.

Giulia Scorza Azzarà^1,2, Joshua Zonca³, Francesco Rea³

¹Robotics Brain and Cognitive Sciences Unit, Italian Institute of Technology, 16152 Genoa, GE, Italy.

|July 3, 2025

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.

Keywords:

Classification Description Robotics Social sciences

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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.