It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the 'uncanny valley'.
Sept 1 - It has long been known that making eye contact with a robot can be an unsettling experience. Scientists even have a name for the queasy feeling: the "uncanny valley".A team at the Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia in Genoa have shown how a robot's gaze can trick us into thinking we are socially interacting and slow our ability to make decisions.
"The question is whether the robot gaze will evoke very similar mechanisms in the human brain as another human's gaze would." In each scenario, the scientists collected data on behaviour and neural activity via electroencephalography , which detects electrical activity in the brain. "The mutual gaze of the robot affected decisions by delaying them, so humans were much slower in making the decisions in the game.""Once we understand when robots elicit social attunement, then we can decide it which sort of context this is desirable and beneficial for humans and in which context this should not occur," said Wykowska.
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