Robot Lometh: Exploring the Influence of Attentional Cueing Behaviors of a Product Promoting Social Robot on Attention Shift of a Passing by Human

Authors

  • Nethmini T. Weerawarna Department of Information and Communication Technology, Faculty of Technology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Udaka A. Manawadu Robot Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
  • P. Ravindra S. De Silva Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31357/ait.v5i01.8646

Keywords:

Attentional cueing, Attention shift, Human-robot interaction, Anthropomorphic social robot

Abstract

Applications of social robots appear to be growing in many industries worldwide. Researchers in the field of human- robot interaction (HRI) explore how to implement a robot in a socially accepted manner and explore methods of building a successful social robot that can accomplish its expected behaviors. There will be more social robots for
human representations in the future. Hence, interacting with a social robot should feel natural and humanized more than ever. The main challenging task of a product-promoting social robot is to make humans aware of the robot in the field and notify humans passing by of the robot’s presence. This study attempts to identify the effect of different attentional cueing behaviors that robots can perform in capturing the attention of passing by humans to make the human aware of the robot and make the human interact with it using the anthropomorphic social robot “Lometh”. Researchers of this study used three categories of attentional cueing behaviors and their combinations to analyze the influence of cueing behaviors in a supermarket environment where the robot performs the role of a product promoter. Studies are carried out to capture human attention by a robot when a human engages in some activity. At the same time, humans are immobile, but the influences of attention cueing behaviors of a robot towards passing by humans are yet to be explored. In this study, pre-defined robot behavioral combinations were experimented with, and the successful interaction initiations were recorded to analyze the influence of each attentional cueing combination. The outcome of this study recommends that behavioral combinations shift human attention and include verbal cues that highly motivate the human attention shift. The findings will contribute to configuring the procedures for the attentional goals of social robots to achieve their communication goals.

Downloads

Published

2025-11-20

How to Cite

Nethmini T. Weerawarna, Udaka A. Manawadu, & P. Ravindra S. De Silva. (2025). Robot Lometh: Exploring the Influence of Attentional Cueing Behaviors of a Product Promoting Social Robot on Attention Shift of a Passing by Human. Advances in Technology, 5(01). https://doi.org/10.31357/ait.v5i01.8646

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 01 (2025): Volume 5 Issue 1 (2025)

Section

Articles

Categories

License

Copyright (c) 2025 Nethmini T. Weerawarna, Udaka A. Manawadu, P. Ravindra S. De Silva

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Authors hold the copyright of their manuscripts, and all articles are circulated under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as that the original work is properly cited.

The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations. The authors are responsible for securing any permissions needed for the reuse of copyrighted materials included in the manuscript.