@conference {2186,
	title = {An Experimental Eye-Tracking Study for the Design of a Context-Dependent Social Robot Blinking Model},
	booktitle = {Living Machines 2014},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {356-366},
	publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
	organization = {Springer-Verlag},
	address = {Milan, Italy, July 30 {\textendash} August 1},
	abstract = {<p>uman gaze and blinking behaviours have been recently considered, to empower humanlike robots to convey a realistic behaviour in a social human-robot interaction. This paper reports the findings of our investigation on human eye-blinking behaviour in relation to human gaze behaviour, in a human-human interaction. These findings then can be used to design a humanlike eye-blinking model for a social humanlike robot. In an experimental eye-tracking study, we showed to 11 participants, a 7-minute video of social interactions of two people, and collected their eye-blinking and gaze behaviours with an eye-tracker. Analysing the collected data, we measured information such as participants{\textquoteright} blinking rate, maximum and minimum blinking duration, number of frequent (multiple) blinking, as well as the participants{\textquoteright} gaze directions on environment. The results revealed that participants{\textquoteright} blinking rate in a social interaction are qualitatively correlated to the gaze behaviour, as higher number of gaze shift increased the blinking rate. Based on the findings of this study, we can propose a context-dependent blinking model as an important component of the robot{\textquoteright}s gaze control system that can empower our robot to mimic human blinking behaviour in a multiparty social interaction.</p>
},
	keywords = {Robotics},
	doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_31},
	url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_31},
	author = {A. Zaraki and Dehkordi, M. B. and D. Mazzei and D. De Rossi}
}
@conference {2188,
	title = {An RGB-D Based Social Behavior Interpretation System for a Humanoid Social Robot},
	booktitle = {IEEE-RSI International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics 2014 },
	year = {2014},
	pages = {185 - 190},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Tehran, Iran, October 15-17},
	keywords = {Bioengineering, Robotics},
	doi = {10.1109/ICRoM.2014.6990898},
	author = {A. Zaraki and Giuliani, M. and Dehkordi, M. B. and D. Mazzei and D{\textquoteright}Ursi, A. and D. De Rossi}
}
