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Designing for a Wearable Affective Interface for the NAO Robot: A Study of Emotion Conveyance by Touch
Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. (Interaction Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1525-0745
Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. (Interaction Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0159-9628
University of Skövde, School of Informatics. University of Skövde, The Informatics Research Centre. (Interaction Lab)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7554-2301
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden / The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden.
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2018 (English)In: Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, ISSN 2414-4088, Vol. 2, no 1Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We here present results and analysis from a study of affective tactile communication between human and humanoid robot (the NAO robot). In the present work, participants conveyed eight emotions to the NAO via touch. In this study, we sought to understand the potential for using a wearable affective (tactile) interface, or WAffI. The aims of our study were to address the following: (i) how emotions and affective states can be conveyed (encoded) to such a humanoid robot, (ii) what are the effects of dressing the NAO in the WAffI on emotion conveyance and (iii) what is the potential for decoding emotion and affective states. We found that subjects conveyed touch for longer duration and over more locations on the robot when the NAO was dressed with WAffI than when it was not. Our analysis illuminates ways by which affective valence, and separate emotions, might be decoded by a humanoid robot according to the different features of touch: intensity, duration, location, type. Finally, we discuss the types of sensors and their distribution as they may be embedded within the WAffI and that would likely benefit Human-NAO (and Human-Humanoid) interaction along the affective tactile dimension.

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M D P I AG , 2018. Vol. 2, no 1
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affective tactile interaction, emotions, human-robot interaction, touch, emotion classification
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Robotics and automation
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Interaction Lab (ILAB); INF302 Autonomous Intelligent Systems
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URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-14958DOI: 10.3390/mti2010002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85075614664OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-14958DiVA, id: diva2:1189969
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