Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction

Section 1: Introduction. 1. Introduction to Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction. Section 2: System Development for Social Touch Interaction. 2. Development of 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. SOTO: An Android Platform for Social Touch Interaction. Section 3: Modeling Pre-touch Proxemics. 6. Implementing Pre-touch Reaction Distance around Face for a Social Robot. 7. Implementing Pre-touch Reaction Distance around Upper Body Parts for a Social Robot. 8. Comparison of Pre-touch Reaction Distance between Physical and VR Environments. Section 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. Section 5: Behavior 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 Behaviors and Stress-Buffering Effects. 18. Mediated Hug Modulates Impressions of Hearsay Information. 19. Multi-modal Interaction through Anthropomorphically Designed Communication Medium to Enhance the Self-disclosures of Personal Information. Section 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.