Analysis of manipulating other´s attention for smooth interaction between human and robot

Understanding and predicting human´s behavior by a robot is necessary for smooth interaction with humans. Humans often achieve them by guidance of other´s behavior, especially controlling its attention. Magicians can effectively manipulate spectators´ attention. In this study, we hypothesized that the relationship between magician´s gaze and hands plays an important role for controlling spectators´ attention. To test the hypothesis, we carried out an experiment to measure gaze points of spectators who were watching magic videos and analyzed the result of the experiment. As a result, we obtained the result that when the magician´s gaze coincided with his hands that were manipulating objects, the degree of attention drawing was higher than otherwise.