@inproceedings {pub6193,
	title = {Mirror Eyes: Explainable Human-Robot Interaction at a Glance},
	author = {Matti Kr{\"u}ger AND Daniel Tanneberg AND Chao Wang AND Stephan Hasler AND Michael Gienger},
	year = {2025},
	month = {August},
	abstract = {The gaze of a person tends to reflect their interest. 
This work explores what happens when this statement is taken literally and applied to robots. 
Here we present a robot system that employs a moving robot head with a screen-based eye model that can direct the robot{\textquoteright}s gaze to points in physical space and present a reflection-like mirror image of the attended region on top of each eye. 
We conducted a user study with 33 participants who were asked to instruct the robot to perform pick-and-place tasks, monitor the robot{\textquoteright}s task execution, and interrupt it in case of erroneous actions. 
Despite a deliberate lack of instructions about the role of the eyes and a very brief system exposure, participants felt more aware about the robot{\textquoteright}s information processing, detected erroneous actions earlier, and rated the user experience higher when eye-based mirroring was enabled compared to non-reflective eyes. 
These results suggest a beneficial and intuitive  utilization of the introduced method in cooperative human-robot interaction. },
	publisher = {IEEE},
	note = {Electronic ISSN: 1944-9437
Print on Demand(PoD) ISSN: 1944-9445 

Date of Conference: 25-29 August 2025 
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 November 2025},
	booktitle = {2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)}
}