Observing Robot Touch in Context How Does Touch and Attitude Affect Perceptions of a Robot's Social Qualities?

The complex role of touch is an increasingly appreciated horizon for HRI research. The explicit and implicit registers of touch, both human-to-robot and robot-to-human, have opened up pressing questions in design and HRI ethics about embodiment, communication, care, and human affection. In this pape...

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Published in:2018 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 352 - 360
Main Authors: Arnold, Thomas, Scheutz, Matthias
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 26.02.2018
Series:ACM Conferences
Subjects:
gender effects
Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI) > HCI design and evaluation methods > Laboratory experiments
Human-robot interaction
Medical treatment
observation study
Observers
Pressing
Registers
robot touch
Task analysis
Trajectory
robot touch
observation study
gender effects
ISBN:9781450349536, 1450349536
ISSN:2167-2148
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Summary:The complex role of touch is an increasingly appreciated horizon for HRI research. The explicit and implicit registers of touch, both human-to-robot and robot-to-human, have opened up pressing questions in design and HRI ethics about embodiment, communication, care, and human affection. In this paper we present results of an MTurk survey about robot-initiated touch in a social context. We examine how a positive or negative attitude from the robot, as well as whether the robot touches an interactant, affects how a robot is judged as a worker and teammate. Our findings confirm previous empirical support for the idea of touch as enhancing social appraisals of a robot, though the extent of that positive tactile role was complicated and tempered by the survey responses» gender effects.
ISBN:9781450349536
1450349536
ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1145/3171221.3171263