IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Jul 1, 2022
Joint attention is the capacity of sharing attention between two agents and an aspect of the environment, through the use of different cues, namely gaze. This capacity is of paramount importance for social skills. People with Autism Spectrum Disorder...
Understanding others' nonverbal behavior is essential for social interaction, as it allows, among others, to infer mental states. Although gaze communication, a well-established nonverbal social behavior, has shown its importance in inferring others'...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Aug 10, 2021
Sitting in a static railway carriage can produce illusory self-motion if the train on an adjoining track moves off. While our visual system registers motion, vestibular signals indicate that we are stationary. The brain is faced with a difficult chal...
Artistic composition (the structural organization of pictorial elements) is often characterized by some basic rules and heuristics, but art history does not offer quantitative tools for segmenting individual elements, measuring their interactions and...
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Mar 24, 2021
Eye contact established by a human partner has been shown to affect various cognitive processes of the receiver. However, little is known about humans' responses to eye contact established by a humanoid robot. Here, we aimed at examining humans' osci...
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Feb 1, 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak was announced as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020 and has affected a growing number of people in the past few months. In this context, advanced artificial intelligence techniques are brought to th...
SIGNIFICANCE: Melanoma is a deadly cancer that physicians struggle to diagnose early because they lack the knowledge to differentiate benign from malignant lesions. Deep machine learning approaches to image analysis offer promise but lack the transpa...
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has great potential to provide accessible, affordable, and personalized therapeutic interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, human-robot interaction (HRI) methods are still limited in...
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Apr 29, 2019
In social interactions, we rely on non-verbal cues like gaze direction to understand the behaviour of others. How we react to these cues is determined by the degree to which we believe that they originate from an entity with a mind capable of having ...
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