Trial reportScientific reports2021
Gaze facilitates responsivity during hand coordinated joint attention.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Humans vs. Robots: Utilization of pointing cues and the mediators of trust in nonverbal communication.Computers in human behavior. Artificial humans · 2026Article
- Running virtual reality experiments online: A brief introduction and tutorial.Behavior research methods · 2026Article
- The influence of human agency beliefs on ascribing gaze-signalled communicative intent.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Coordinating Attention in Face-to-Face Collaboration: The Dynamics of Gaze, Pointing, and Verbal Reference.Cognitive science · 2025Article
- When Action Speaks Louder than Words: Exploring Non-Verbal and Paraverbal Features in Dyadic Collaborative VR.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The temporal context of eye contact influences perceptions of communicative intent.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Autistic young people adaptively use gaze to facilitate joint attention during multi-gestural dyadic interactions.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- Impaired recognition of interactive intentions in adults with autism spectrum disorder not attributable to differences in visual attention or coordination via eye contact and joint attention.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Looking, pointing, and talking together: How dyads of differential expertise coordinate attention during conversation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Evidence for the adaptive parsing of non-communicative eye movements during joint attention interactions.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Intrapersonal synchrony analysis reveals a weaker temporal coherence between gaze and gestures in adults with autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
The coordination of attention between individuals is a fundamental part of everyday human social interaction. Previous work has focused on the role of gaze information for guiding responses during joint attention episodes. However, in many contexts, hand gestures such as pointing provide another valuable source of information about the locus of attention. The current study developed a novel virtual reality paradigm to investigate the extent to which initiator gaze information is used by responders to guide joint attention responses in the presence of more visually salient and spatially precise pointing gestures. Dyads were instructed to use pointing gestures to complete a cooperative joint attention task in a virtual environment. Eye and hand tracking enabled real-time interaction and provided objective measures of gaze and pointing behaviours. Initiators displayed gaze behaviours that were spatially congruent with the subsequent pointing gestures. Responders overtly attended to the initiator's gaze during the joint attention episode. However, both these initiator and responder behaviours were highly variable across individuals. Critically, when responders did overtly attend to their partner's face, their saccadic reaction times were faster when the initiator's gaze was also congruent with the pointing gesture, and thus predictive of the joint attention location. These results indicate that humans attend to and process gaze information to facilitate joint attention responsivity, even in contexts where gaze information is implicit to the task and joint attention is explicitly cued by more spatially precise and visually salient pointing gestures.
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