{"id":21531,"date":"2016-02-02T13:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-human-eye-contact-helps-conversation-flow"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:00:59","slug":"robot-human-eye-contact-helps-conversation-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/robot-human-eye-contact-helps-conversation-flow","title":{"rendered":"Robot-human eye contact helps conversation flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0HLuvmWL7g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pop music is littered with titles that relay how romantic yearning is sparked and experienced wordlessly with one person staring at the other. Animals don\u2019t have it so good. \u201cMost mammals generally interpret direct gaze as threatening or as a sign of dominance,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3863960\/\">wrote researchers<\/a> in <i>Frontiers In Human Neuroscience<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>People, however, usually take gazing with positive interpretations, such as affection, love and attraction. \u201cA preference for direct gaze seems to be present at a very early age: Farroni et al. (2002) found that infants as young as 2 days old prefer to look at faces that gazed directly at them compared to faces with averted gaze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If social gazing goes down so well between humans, what about between <a href=\"http:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/robot\/\" rel=\"tag\">robot<\/a> and human? <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.cs.wisc.edu\/~sandrist\/research.html\">Sean Andrist<\/a>, doctoral candidate in computer science, UW-Madison Graduate School, has seriously explored that question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.techxplore.com\/news\/2016-02-robot-human-eye-contact-conversation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop music is littered with titles that relay how romantic yearning is sparked and experienced wordlessly with one person staring at the other. Animals don\u2019t have it so good. \u201cMost mammals generally interpret direct gaze as threatening or as a sign of dominance,\u201d wrote researchers in Frontiers In Human Neuroscience. People, however, usually take gazing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63042,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21531\/revisions\/63042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}