Publications related to Joint attention

Exploring Spatial Perspective Taking in Human-Robot Interaction

Humans often rely on their perspective taking skills to thrive within the world's complex relations and connections. An adequate understanding of others' spatial perspectives can increase the quality of the interaction, not only perceptually but also cogni ...

EPFL2021

An Ink–and–Paper Automaton: The Conceptual Mechanization of Cognition and the Practical Automation of Reasoning in Leibniz’s De Affectibus (1679)

Simon François Dumas Primbault

On ten loose handwritten folios dating back from April 1679, Leibniz gradually devised, in the course of three days, a full-blown theory of thought that nonetheless remained unpublished and still has received little attention from scholars. Conceiving of a ...

2020

Differential effects of vestibular processing on orienting exogenous and endogenous covert visual attention

Olaf Blanke, Mariia Kaliuzhna, Andrea Serino, Steve Michel Berger

Recent research highlights the overwhelming role of vestibular information for higher order cognition. Central to body perception, vestibular cues provide information about self-location in space, self-motion versus object motion, and modulate the percepti ...

2019

Role of Gaze Cues in Interpersonal Motor Coordination: Towards Higher Affiliation in Human-Robot Interaction

Aude Billard, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Ashwini Shukla

Background The ability to follow one another's gaze plays an important role in our social cognition; especially when we synchronously perform tasks together. We investigate how gaze cues can improve performance in a simple coordination task (i.e., the mirr ...

Public Library of Science2016

Social orienting of children with autism to facial expressions and speech: a study with a wearable eye-tracker in naturalistic settings

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris, Patrick Jermann, Silvia Magrelli

This study investigates attention orienting to social stimuli in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) during dyadic social interactions taking place in real-life settings. We study the effect of social cues that differ in complexity and distingui ...

Frontiers Media2013

It's All in the Eyes: Subcortical and Cortical Activation during Grotesqueness Perception in Autism

Nouchine Hadjikhani, Loyse Hippolyte, Ophélie Rogier, Britt Russo

Atypical face processing plays a key role in social interaction difficulties encountered by individuals with autism. In the current fMRI study, the Thatcher illusion was used to investigate several aspects of face processing in 20 young adults with high-fu ...

Public Library Science2013

Investigating Gaze of Children with ASD in Naturalistic Settings

Aude Billard, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Basilio Noris

Background: Visual behavior is known to be atypical in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Monitor-based eye-tracking studies have measured several of these atypicalities in individuals with Autism. While atypical behaviors are known to be accentuated during ...

Public Library of Science2012

The missing social instinct : behavioral and functional brain imaging investigations in autism

Nicole Regula Zürcher Wimmer

Smooth social interactions in everyday life rely on spontaneous understanding of emotions and intentions of others, conveyed by subtle social cues, such as gaze and facial expressions. In individuals with autism, however, who represent close to 1% of the p ...

EPFL2012

Machine Vision-Based Analysis of Gaze and Visual Context : an Application to Visual Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Basilio Noris

Visual behavior, and specifically gaze directed at objects and people, is a fundamental cue for understanding how children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience and respond to social interaction. Indeed atypical behaviors such as averting the gaze ...

EPFL2011

Measuring Gaze of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Naturalistic Interactions

Aude Billard, Basilio Noris

In this paper, we report on a study on gaze behavior by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during a dyadic interaction in a naturalistic environment. Twelve children with ASD were contrasted to twelve typically developing (TD) children, in a semi ...

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