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Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction

Symbiotic touch interaction between human and robot

Masahiro Shiomi Hidenobu Sumioka

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English
CRC Press
29 March 2024
In this book for researchers and students, editors Shiomi and Sumioka bring together contributions from researchers working on the CREST project at ATR Deep Interaction Laboratories, a world leader in social robotics, to comprehensively describe robot touch systems from hardware to applications.

Appropriate touch from robots to humans is essential for social robots, but achieving this requires various solutions at every stage of the touch process. Through this book, readers will gain an understanding of the needs, essential systems and communication cues, behaviour designs, and real‑world issues for social touch applications. This book compiles and updates technical and empirical research that was previously scattered throughout the literature into a single volume. Through individually authored chapters addressing various elements of ATR’s CREST project, this book tackles key areas where understanding is needed to realize acceptable touch interaction, including pre‑touch interaction, interaction design for touching and being touched, behaviour changes caused by touch interaction, and applications of social touch interaction. It introduces a touch sensor and robots developed by the authors, including several touch‑related behaviours and design policies. This approach will enable readers to easily apply this knowledge to their own social robotics programs. This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to understand and develop social robots that physically interact with people.

It is most beneficial for researchers and upper undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of human–robot/agent/computer interaction and social touch interaction and those in the broader fields of engineering, computer science, and cognitive science.
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Imprint:   CRC Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   780g
ISBN:   9781032470269
ISBN 10:   1032470267
Pages:   305
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 earned an MEng and a PhD in engineering from Osaka University in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He served as a program chair on Ro‑MAN2020, HAI2021, and HRI2022 and as 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 earned a PhD in engineering from Osaka University in 2008.

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