Touch is our primary non-verbal communication channel for conveying intimate emotions
and as such essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing. In our digital age, human …

This survey provides an overview of work on haptic technology for social touch. Social touch
has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience. With the development of new …

Recently, social touch gesture recognition has been considered an important topic for touch
modality, which can lead to highly efficient and realistic human‐robot interaction. In this …

The use of the senses of vision and audition as interactive means has dominated the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for decades, even though nature has provided us with …

We describe a flexible robotic skin module that can measure proximity, contact and force, as
well as algorithms for detecting obstacles, human hands, and affective touch gestures. The …

Given the importance of affective touch in human interactions, technology designers are
increasingly attempting to bring this modality to the core of interactive technology. Advances …

Physical Human-Robot-Interaction (pHRI) is beneficial for communication in social
interaction or to perform collaborative tasks but is also crucial for safety. While robotic …

For an artifact such as a robot or a virtual agent to respond appropriately to human social
touch behavior, it should be able to automatically detect and recognize touch. This paper …

Social touch is essential to everyday interactions, but current socially assistive robots have
limited touch-perception capabilities. Rather than build entirely new robotic systems, we …

Socio-affective touch communication conveys a vast amount of information about emotions
and intentions in social contexts. In spite of the complexity of the socio-affective touch …