TY - GEN
T1 - Touching an Android robot
T2 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2015
AU - Haring, Kerstin Sophie
AU - Watanabe, Katsumi
AU - Silvera-Tawil, David
AU - Velonaki, Mari
AU - Matsumoto, Yoshio
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by JSPS and JST CREST. We also thank the Service Robotics Group of the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) for the provision of the robot and the technical support.
PY - 2015/7/23
Y1 - 2015/7/23
N2 - As the presence of robots in everyday life becomes more common, it is expected that interactions between humans and robots will include the modality of touch. To date, however, little research has been conducted on tactile interactions between humans and anthropomorphic robots. This study investigates human induced tactile interaction with an android robot. To facilitate data analysis, existing touch dictionaries were revised and adapted for the specifics of human-android interaction. By measuring the participants' personality traits and their perception of the robot, it was found that some tactile gestures are related to participants' personality traits, such as neuroticism and extroversion, and others to robot attributes such as anthropomorphism and animacy. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to report on how people touch an android robot, and the correlation that exists between the tactile gestures used and the participants' personality traits. Possible implications are discussed.
AB - As the presence of robots in everyday life becomes more common, it is expected that interactions between humans and robots will include the modality of touch. To date, however, little research has been conducted on tactile interactions between humans and anthropomorphic robots. This study investigates human induced tactile interaction with an android robot. To facilitate data analysis, existing touch dictionaries were revised and adapted for the specifics of human-android interaction. By measuring the participants' personality traits and their perception of the robot, it was found that some tactile gestures are related to participants' personality traits, such as neuroticism and extroversion, and others to robot attributes such as anthropomorphism and animacy. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study to report on how people touch an android robot, and the correlation that exists between the tactile gestures used and the participants' personality traits. Possible implications are discussed.
KW - android robots
KW - human-robot-interaction
KW - touch
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U2 - 10.1109/ICCAR.2015.7165993
DO - 10.1109/ICCAR.2015.7165993
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84970023155
T3 - Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2015
SP - 8
EP - 13
BT - Proceedings - 2015 International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 May 2015 through 22 May 2015
ER -