The 3 attention movies: These clips show the visual attention system in action. The first movie illustrates the color saliency process. The left frame is the video signal, the right frame shows how the colorful block is particularly salient. The middle frame shows the raw saliency value due to color. The bright region in the center is the habituation influence. The second movie illustrates the motion saliency process. Third movie illustrates the face saliency process (center) and the habituation process (right). turns-300 In this video clip, Kismet engages people in a proto-dialog. The robot does not speak any language; it babbles so don't expect to understand what it's saying. The turn taking dynamics are quite fluid and natural. The robot sends a variety of turn-taking cues through vocal pauses, gaze direction and postural changes. The first segment is with two of Kismet's caregivers. The next two are with naive subjects. The last is edited from one long interaction. affect-300 In this video clip, Kismet correctly interprets 4 classes of affective intent: praise, prohibition, attentional bids, and soothing. These were taken from cross-lingual studies with naive subjects. The robot's expressive feedback is readily interpreted by the subjects as well. affect-speech-veryloud In this video clip, Kismet says the phrase "Do you really think so" with varying emotional qualities. In order, the emotional qualities correspond to calm, anger, disgust, fear, happy, sad, interest. search In this video clip, Kismet is searching for a toy. It's facial expression and eye movements make it readily appearant to an observer when the robot has discovered the colorful block on the stool. The attention system is always running and enabling the robot to respond appropriately to unexpected stimuli (such as the person entering from the right hand side of the frame to take away the toy). Notice how Kismet appears a bit crest-fallen when it's toy is removed.