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Monkeys, dolphins, robots, children, and autism: An Exploration of Shared Visual Attention in Collaborative Programming

Posted in research on May 14th, 2009 by roman

It seems that joint attention has been well studied in several interesting domains. For example, development and evolutionary studies (do not mix with international development) have confirmed that our elaboration of the skills related to joint attention are our main advantage against other species. Other major contributions are then from monkey research. Somebody even studied dolphins. The latest attempts focus on implementing architectures that imitate the shared visual attention mechanisms! So we have robots, to top the bunch.

Now, we will be researching programmers’ shared (visual) attention. Imagine that extreme title of this post as an upcoming paper title!

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