'Midas touch' in human-robot interaction

Fukuda, Haruaki; Shiomi, Masahiro; Nakagawa, Kanako; Ueda, Kazuhiro

doi:10.1145/2157689.2157720

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“…Preliminary research indeed suggests that when people receive a touch from a robot, the perceived levels of trust and friendship with the robot increase [42,60,95,98,118]. Moreover, a touch made people more willing to carry out a monotonous task [95,118] and unfair monetary offers that were proposed by the robot were perceived as less unfair after being touched [42]; examples of a Robotic Midas Touch effect. Conversely, supposedly comforting touches that accompanied soothing words from a robot did not attenuate physiological stress responses while watching a scary movie, strengthen the bond with the robot, increase the perceptions of its humanlikeness, or increase one's pro-social behavior [135].…”

Section: Social Touch and The Modulating Effect Of Bonding In Human-rmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Since social robots employ similar haptic technologies, it is suggested that robot-initiated touches should be able to induce similar effects as humaninitiated touches [130,131,135]. Preliminary research indeed suggests that when people receive a touch from a robot, the perceived levels of trust and friendship with the robot increase [42,60,95,98,118]. Moreover, a touch made people more willing to carry out a monotonous task [95,118] and unfair monetary offers that were proposed by the robot were perceived as less unfair after being touched [42]; examples of a Robotic Midas Touch effect.…”

Section: Social Touch and The Modulating Effect Of Bonding In Human-rmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In HRI: [42,60,95,98,118] Immediacy [4] The robot gestured with its arms during speech, while its gaze (i.e., facial orientation) was directed at the participant. While 'listening' to the participant, the robot nodded from time to time.…”

Section: Verbal Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Robot-Initiated Touches can Induce Positive Responses without Extensive Prior Bonding

Willemse

Erp

2018

Int J of Soc Robotics

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Social touch interactions can, depending on the type and strength of the dyadic social relationship, elicit a plethora of physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses; both beneficial and disadvantageous. With the intention to expand the communicative capabilities of humanoid social robots, we investigated whether robot-initiated touches could elicit beneficial responses in the human user that are comparable to responses to human touch. In addition, we investigated whether having a pre-existing positive social bond with the robot modulates these responses. To this end, we conducted a 2 × 2 between subjects experiment (N = 67) in which participants either did or did not establish a bond with the robot prior to interacting with it during stressful circumstances. This interaction either did or did not comprise robot-initiated touches. We hypothesized that robotic touches would attenuate the subjective and physiological stress responses during the stressful event (H1a), enhance the perceived relation with the robot (H1b), and increase one's pro-social behavior (H1c), as contrasted with interactions without touch. Based on findings from human touch, we also expected that the effects of H1a and H1b would be more outspoken when a bond with the robot was established (H2). Our findings imply that robotic touches attenuated physiological stress responses and increased the perceived intimacy of the human-robot bond. No effects were found on pro-social behavior and all effects were independent of whether a bond was formed or not. Although no full support for our hypotheses was found, the findings suggest that robot-initiated touch can, under specific circumstances, be a valuable extension of a social robot's nonverbal communication repertoire.

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Section: Social Touch and The Modulating Effect Of Bonding In Human-rmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Social Touch and The Modulating Effect Of Bonding In Human-rmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Robot-Initiated Touches can Induce Positive Responses without Extensive Prior Bonding

Willemse

Erp

2018

Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…Given that touch is a bi-directional modality in nature and the envisioned smooth and intuitive interaction between humans and robot implies complex interaction patterns in order to humanize robots. For example, it has been reported that a robot's touch reduces feelings of unfairness and enhances persuasiveness [76,77].…”

Section: Future Work and Concluding Remarksmentioning

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Conveying Emotions by Touch to the Nao Robot: A User Experience Perspective

Alenljung

Andreasson

Lowe

et al. 2018

MTI

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Social robots are expected gradually to be used by more and more people in a wider range of settings, domestic as well as professional. As a consequence, the features and quality requirements on human–robot interaction will increase, comprising possibilities to communicate emotions, establishing a positive user experience, e.g., using touch. In this paper, the focus is on depicting how humans, as the users of robots, experience tactile emotional communication with the Nao Robot, as well as identifying aspects affecting the experience and touch behavior. A qualitative investigation was conducted as part of a larger experiment. The major findings consist of 15 different aspects that vary along one or more dimensions and how those influence the four dimensions of user experience that are present in the study, as well as the different parts of touch behavior of conveying emotions.

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“…Focusing more on the effects of touch, Fukuda et al indicated the possibility that robots can have a social effect on humans by touching them [7]. According to the results of their study, it tended to be more acceptable for humans for a robot to make a profit when the robot touches us than when the robot it does not.…”

Section: Social Effects On Human-robot Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Daily support robots that move on the body

Saga¹,

Munekata

Ono

2014

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction

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Today, wearable devices such as Google Glass [1] and SmartWatch[2] are gathering attention. These devices can constantly support us by being worn on a daily basis. In contrast, although we can also find an increase of personal robots in daily life, "wearable robots" are not so prevalent.We focus on wearable robots and the "fixed" points on which they are worn. We believe that they can provide more continuous and suitable support in a variety of ways by moving automatically on our bodies. Therefore, we propose a daily support system with a wearable robot that moves on the body, and we developed a small prototype robot that can move on a rail fixed on a belt worn on the human body.

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'Midas touch' in human-robot interaction

Cited by 44 publications

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Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Robot-Initiated Touches can Induce Positive Responses without Extensive Prior Bonding

Social Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Robot-Initiated Touches can Induce Positive Responses without Extensive Prior Bonding

Conveying Emotions by Touch to the Nao Robot: A User Experience Perspective

Daily support robots that move on the body

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