The emergence of robotic systems offers many opportunities for olderadults (OA) to support their daily life activities. Therefore, there is aneed to study social interactions between OA and robots better. Oneimportant aspect of social communication is the use of non-verbal cues,of which eye gaze has proven to be of special interest both in the fieldsof social cognition and HRI. In this paper, we review previous work onHRI with OA and propose an experiment to compare the influence ofgaze behaviour of robots on older and younger users. These findingswill allow a better design and adaptation of social robots to age-relatedchanges in aspects of social cognition.
Funding Agency:
EU H2020 Marie Skodowska-Curie 75428