Study: Children aged 3-5 attribute intent to human eyes but not to robot gaze
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Summary
A new study with Italian children aged 3-5 found that young children recognize social cues and intent in human eyes but do not attribute the same meaning to a robot's gaze. While children understand that a human looking at an object signals interest or intention, they treat a humanoid robot's gaze as meaningless, revealing a strict limit in early social cognition: the eyes must belong to a person, not a machine.
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The eyes have to belong to a person, not a machine.
That tiny act of eye-reading is one of the first social skills a child develops.
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