Computer science

Environmental health

Pattern recognition (psychology)

Population

Artificial intelligence

Medicine

Human–computer interaction

Facial recognition system

Fixation (population genetics)

Computer vision

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

The present study investigates whether adults and children exhibit different eye-fixation patterns when they look at human faces, machinelike robotic faces, and humanlike robotic faces. The results from two between-subject experiments showed that children and adults did have different facial recognition patterns; children tended to fixate more on the mouth of both machinelike and humanlike robotic faces than they do on human faces, while adults focused more on the eyes. The implications of notable findings and the limitations of the experiment are discussed.

Facial Recognition Patterns of Children and Adults Looking at Robotic Faces