The Effects of Social Gaze in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly

@inproceedings{Fischer2015TheEO,
  title={The Effects of Social Gaze in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly},
  author={Kerstin Fischer and Lars Christian Jensen and Franziska Kirstein and Sebastian Stabinger and {\"O}zg{\"u}r Erkent and Dadhichi Shukla and Justus H. Piater},
  booktitle={ICSR},
  year={2015}
}
In this paper we explore how social gaze in an assembly robot affects how naive users interact with it. In a controlled experimental study, 30 participants instructed an industrial robot to fetch parts needed to assemble a wooden toolbox. Participants either interacted with a robot employing a simple gaze following the movements of its own arm, or with a robot that follows its own movements during tasks, but which also gazes at the participant between instructions. Our qualitative and… 
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