Open AccessFacial Recognition Patterns of Children and Adults Looking at Robotic Faces
Author(s) -
Eunil Park,
Ki Joon Kim,
Ángel P. del Pobil
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of advanced robotic systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1729-8814
pISSN - 1729-8806
DOI - 10.5772/47836
Subject(s) - computer science , fixation (population genetics) , artificial intelligence , facial recognition system , computer vision , pattern recognition (psychology) , medicine , population , environmental health
The present study investigates whether adults and children exhibit different eye‐fixation patterns when they look at human faces, machinelike robotic faces, and humanlike robotic faces. The results from two between‐ subject experiments showed that children and adults did have different facial recognition patterns; children tended to fixate more on the mouth of both machinelike and humanlike robotic faces than they do on human faces, while adults focused more on the eyes. The implications of notable findings and the limitations of the experiment are discussed