Source Paper | Skin-On Interfaces
I found this paper through the course bibliography under human-robot interactions. The authors of this paper created a material that mimics the sensing properties of skin to be used for interaction in digital interfaces. Their artificial skin has similar sensitivity to human skin, detects gestures like pinching or scratching, and was implemented into a number of demo interfaces.
Teyssier, Marc, Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud, Eric Lecolinet, Andrew Conn, and Anne Roudaut. “Skin-On Interfaces: A Bio-Driven Approach for Artificial Skin Design to Cover Interactive Devices.” In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 307–22. UIST ’19. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3332165.3347943.
Root Paper | Affective Touch in Human–Robot Interaction
This paper was the third reference in the source paper. In this study, participants were directed to convey 8 kinds of emotion to a robot through touch. The study exampled the links between emotion and different parts of the robot’s body as well as the effect of factors like gender in participant input. I chose this paper in particular not only because I found the study premise itself interesting but also because I felt it might be referenced as a source in other papers that seek to study humanoid robot-human interaction.
Andreasson, Rebecca, Beatrice Alenljung, Erik Billing, and Robert Lowe. “Affective Touch in Human–Robot Interaction: Conveying Emotion to the Nao Robot.” International Journal of Social Robotics 10, no. 4 (September 1, 2018): 473–91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0446-3.
Related Work
To find related work, I found the paper in Web of Science and began looking for interesting results in the “results cited” tab. My primary goal was to find papers on how movement, touch, and behavior in robots could affect human perception of them.
A Touching Connection: How Observing Robotic Touch Can Affect Human Trust in a Robot
This study had participants observe a robot interacting with humans through different routines and contexts. Participants were than surveyed on how much trust they would put into that robot based on various metrics such as reliability, capability, sincerity etc. I was interested in the discussion of how human social norms and interactions affected their perception of what was normal or acceptable for robots to do.
Law, Theresa, Bertram F. Malle, and Matthias Scheutz. “A Touching Connection: How Observing Robotic Touch Can Affect Human Trust in a Robot.” International Journal of Social Robotics 13, no. 8 (December 2021): 2003–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00729-7.
Intelligent humanoid robots expressing artificial humanlike empathy in nursing situations
This paper discusses how robots in nursing situations may be expected to display empathy-like emotions as they increase in number and importance. This paper was less interesting in the technical discussion than than the discussion of potential implications of human-robot interaction and how care extends to more psychological situations.
Pepito, Joseph Andrew, Hirokazu Ito, Feni Betriana, Tetsuya Tanioka, and Rozzano C. Locsin. “Intelligent Humanoid Robots Expressing Artificial Humanlike Empathy in Nursing Situations.” Nursing Philosophy 21, no. 4 (2020): e12318. https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12318.