Title :
Attentional Mechanisms for Socially Interactive Robots–A Survey
Author :
Ferreira, Joao Filipe ; Dias, Joana
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Syst. & Robot., Univ. of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract :
This review intends to provide an overview of the state of the art in the modeling and implementation of automatic attentional mechanisms for socially interactive robots. Humans assess and exhibit intentionality by resorting to multisensory processes that are deeply rooted within low-level automatic attention-related mechanisms of the brain. For robots to engage with humans properly, they should also be equipped with similar capabilities. Joint attention, the precursor of many fundamental types of social interactions, has been an important focus of research in the past decade and a half, therefore providing the perfect backdrop for assessing the current status of state-of-the-art automatic attentional-based solutions. Consequently, we propose to review the influence of these mechanisms in the context of social interaction in cutting-edge research work on joint attention. This will be achieved by summarizing the contributions already made in these matters in robotic cognitive systems research, by identifying the main scientific issues to be addressed by these contributions and analyzing how successful they have been in this respect, and by consequently drawing conclusions that may suggest a roadmap for future successful research efforts.
Keywords :
cognitive systems; human-robot interaction; intelligent robots; service robots; social aspects of automation; automatic attentional mechanisms; automatic attentional-based solutions; cutting-edge research work; low-level automatic attention-related mechanisms; multisensory processes; robotic cognitive systems; socially interactive robots; Context; Joints; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Automatic attentional mechanisms; bottom–up influences; hierarchical/modular architecture; joint attention; multisensory active perception; probabilistic; socially interactive robots; top–down influences;
Journal_Title :
Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TAMD.2014.2303072