Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction

ISBN-13: 9781032470269 / Twarda / 2024 / 328 str.

Hidenobu Sumioka

Opis

In this book, Shiomi and Sumioka bring together contributions from researchers working on the CREST project at ATR Deep Interaction Laboratories, to describe robot touch systems from hardware to applications.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Introduction to Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction  Part 2: System Development for Social Touch Interaction  2. Development of a Fabric Sensor System Toward Natural Pre-touch and Touch Interaction  3. Application of Fabric Sensors for Soft Robot Hand for Positioning an Object without Touching it  4. Wearable Tactile Sensor Suit for Natural Body Dynamics Extraction: Case Study on Posture Prediction Based on Physical Reservoir Computing  5. SŌTO: An Android Platform for Social Touch Interaction  Part 3: Modeling Pre-touch Proxemics  6. Implementing Pre-touch Reaction Distance around Face for a Social Robot  7. Implementing Pre-touch Reaction Distance around Socially Touchable Upper Body Parts of a Social Robot  8. Comparison of Pre-touch Reaction Distance between Physical and VR environments  Part 4: Interaction Design for Touching and Being Touched  9. Understanding Natural Reaction Time toward Touch  10. Communication Cues Effects in Human–Robot Interaction  11. Gaze and Height Design for Acceptable Touch Behaviors  12. Designing Touch Characteristics to Express Simple Emotions  13. Modeling Touch Timing and Length to Express Complex Emotions  Part 5: Behaviour Change Effects in Human–Robot Touch Interaction  14. Robot Hugs Encourage Self-disclosures  15. Audio-Visual Stimuli Improve both Robot’s Hug Impressions and Stress-Buffering Effects  16. Praise with Tactile Stimulus Increases Motivation  17. Understanding Self-Touch Behaviours and Stress Buffering Effects  18. Mediated Hug Modulates Impression of Hearsay Information  19. Multi-Modal Interaction Through Anthropomorphically Designed Communication Medium to Enhance the Self-Disclosures of Personal Information  Part 6: Applications of Social Touch Interaction  20. A Minimal Design of a Human Infant Presence: A Case Study Toward Interactive Doll Therapy for Older Adults With Dementia  21. Interactive Baby Robot for Seniors with Dementia: Long-term Implementation in Nursing Home  22. A Huggable Device can Reduce the Stress of Calling a Stranger on the Phone for Individuals with ASD  23. Viewing a Presenter’s Touch Affects the Feeling of Kawaii of Others Toward an Object

O autorze

Masahiro Shiomi is a senior research scientist and a group leader of the Agent Interaction Design Laboratory at the Interaction Science Laboratories at ATR, Kyoto, Japan. He is also a visiting professor at Kobe University. He received his M. Eng and Ph. D. degrees in engineering from Osaka University in 2004, and 2007, respectively. He served as a Program Chair on Ro-MAN2020, HAI2021, and HRI2022 and an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Human–Robot Interaction.

 

Hidenobu Sumioka is a group leader of Presence Media Research Group in Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, ATR, Kyoto, Japan. He is also a visiting associate professor at Kobe University. He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Osaka University in 2008.