Affective Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Conveying Emotion to the Nao Robot

Andreasson, RebeccaHögskolan i Skövde,Uppsala universitet,Avdelningen för visuell information och interaktion,Bildanalys och människa-datorinteraktion,School of Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden,Interaction Lab (author)

Affective touch has a fundamental role in human development, social bonding, and for providing emotional support in interpersonal relationships. We present, what is to our knowledge, the first HRI study of tactile conveyance of both positive and negative emotions (affective touch) on the Nao robot, and based on an experimental set-up from a study of human-human tactile communication. In the present work, participants conveyed eight emotions to a small humanoid robot via touch. We found that female participants conveyed emotions for a longer time, using more varied interaction and touching more regions on the robot's body, compared to male participants. Several differences between emotions were found such that emotions could be classified by the valence of the emotion conveyed, by combining touch amount and duration. Overall, these results show high agreement with those reported for human-human affective tactile communication and could also have impact on the design and placement of tactile sensors on humanoid robots.

NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Människa-datorinteraktion hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Human Computer Interaction hsv//eng
Tactile interaction
Affective touch
Human-robot interaction
Emotion encoding
Emotion decoding
tactile interaction
artificial skin
communication
framework
behavior
gender
agents
Robotics
Tactile interaction
Interaction Lab (ILAB)
INF302 Autonomous Intelligent Systems

Alenljung, Beatrice,1971-Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Interaction Lab(Swepub:his)aleb (author)
Billing, Erik,1981-Högskolan i Skövde,Institutionen för informationsteknologi,Forskningscentrum för Informationsteknologi,Interaction Lab(Swepub:his)bile (author)
Lowe, RobertGothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för tillämpad informationsteknologi (GU),Department of Applied Information Technology (GU),Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:his)lowr (author)
Uppsala universitetAvdelningen för visuell information och interaktion (creator_code:org_t)

In:International Journal of Social Robotics: Springer Science and Business Media LLC10:4, s. 473-4911875-47911875-4805

By the author/editor: Andreasson, Rebe ...; Alenljung, Beatr ...; Billing, Erik, 1 ...; Lowe, Robert

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NATURAL SCIENCES: NATURAL SCIENCES; and Computer and Inf ...; and Human Computer I ...

By the university: University of Gothenburg; Uppsala University; University of Skövde

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