{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"A Context-Dependent Attention System for a Social Robot","authors":[{"name":"Cynthia Breazeal","slug":"cynthia-breazeal","given":"Cynthia","family":"Breazeal","affiliation":""},{"name":"Brian Scassellati","slug":"brian-scassellati","given":"Brian","family":"Scassellati","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Thi s pap er presents part of an on-going project to integrat e perception, attention, drives , emotions, behavior a rbitration , a nd expressive acts for a robot designed to interact socially with humans . We prese nt the design of a visual attention system based on a model of human visual search behavior from Wolfe (1994) . The a ttention sys tem inte grat es perceptions (motion det ection, color saliency, and face popo ut s) with habituation effec ts a nd influences from th e robot 's motivational and behavioral st a te to cre ate a conte xt -de pendent attention activation map . This activation map is used to direct eye movements and to sati a te the drives of th e motivational system.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/163","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/0163.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/163.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/bibtex/163","volume":{"slug":"1999","title":"Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1999","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/","year":1999,"location":"Stockholm, Sweden","dates":"","editors":"Thomas Dean","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Robotics and Perception","track":"Robotics and Perception","number":163,"pages":{"first":1146,"last":1152},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}