Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Eye-Gaze from a Social Robot

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08810v1
• Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:07:14 GMT
• Title: Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Eye-Gaze from a Social Robot
• Abstract summary: deictic gaze is important in natural communication in human-robot interaction.<n>The sensibility to deictic-gaze declines naturally with age and results in a reduction in social perception.<n>This may help on the design of adaptive age-related non-verbal cues in the Human-Robot Interaction context.
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• Abstract: There is an increasing interest in social robots assisting older adults during daily life tasks. In this context, non-verbal cues such as deictic gaze are important in natural communication in human-robot interaction. However, the sensibility to deictic-gaze declines naturally with age and results in a reduction in social perception. Therefore, this work explores the benefits of deictic gaze from social robots assisting older adults during daily life tasks, and how age-related differences may influence their social perception in contrast to younger populations. This may help on the design of adaptive age-related non-verbal cues in the Human-Robot Interaction context.

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