Abstract:
Meeting eye contact is a most important prerequisite
skill of a human to initiate an conversation with others. However,
it is not easy task for a robot to meet eye contact with a
human if they are not facing each other initially or the human
is intensely engaged his/her task. If the robot would like to start
communication with a particular person, it should turn its gaze
to that person first. However, only such a turning action alone
is not always be enough to set up eye contact. Sometimes, the
robot should perform some strong actions so that it can capture
the human’s attention toward it. In this paper, we proposed a
computational model for robots that can pro-actively captures
human attention and makes eye contact with him/her. Evaluation
experiment by using a robotic head reveals the effectiveness of
the proposed model in different viewing infatuations.
