Nathan Caruana
@natecaruana.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience 🧠 studying mechanisms of social perception 👁 & interaction 🤝 across neurodiverse people 👥 & with artificial agents 🤖 | Website 🌐www.haviclab.com
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Another #CRAEwebinar booked in! February seems a long way away, but you might want to sign up now to hear from @natecaruana.bsky.social on how VR can help us understand and improve the social experiences of autistic people.
Virtual reality as a tool for supporting autistic people.
Exploring how VR can help us understand—and improve—the social experiences of autistic people.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Another #CRAEwebinar booked in! February seems a long way away, but you might want to sign up now to hear from @natecaruana.bsky.social on how VR can help us understand and improve the social experiences of autistic people.
Reposted by Nathan Caruana
2x Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology positions at Flinders University. Both full-time research and teaching continuing (tenure track equivalent) positions that are open in terms of the field of psychological research. Happy to answer any questions!
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
2x Senior Lecturer/Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology positions at Flinders University. Both full-time research and teaching continuing (tenure track equivalent) positions that are open in terms of the field of psychological research. Happy to answer any questions!
Check out our new paper led by Dr Friederike Charlotte Hechler. We show that believing an artificial agent’s gaze is human- rather than AI-controlled moderates how we perceive communication. If gaze behaviour is ambiguous, we give humans the benefit-of-doubt and assume communication 🧠👀🤖
🚀 #OpenScience paper
How do top-down beliefs about artificial agents shape how we interpret their gaze?
Eye contact+repeated gaze shifts cued communicative #intent, but when #gaze was ambiguous, people saw intentionality only if they believed the agent was 🙋 human (vs 🤖 #AI).
👉 rdcu.be/eLuQI
How do top-down beliefs about artificial agents shape how we interpret their gaze?
Eye contact+repeated gaze shifts cued communicative #intent, but when #gaze was ambiguous, people saw intentionality only if they believed the agent was 🙋 human (vs 🤖 #AI).
👉 rdcu.be/eLuQI
The influence of human agency beliefs on ascribing gaze-signalled communicative intent
Scientific Reports - The influence of human agency beliefs on ascribing gaze-signalled communicative intent
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October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Check out our new paper led by Dr Friederike Charlotte Hechler. We show that believing an artificial agent’s gaze is human- rather than AI-controlled moderates how we perceive communication. If gaze behaviour is ambiguous, we give humans the benefit-of-doubt and assume communication 🧠👀🤖