Acceleration sensors are tools for detecting acceleration and serve purposes like fault
monitoring and behavior recognition. It is extensively employed in a variety of industries …

Due to cognitive and socio-emotional decline and mental diseases, senior citizens,
especially people with dementia (PwD), struggle to interact smoothly with their caregivers …

Affective touch has a fundamental role in human development, social bonding, and for
providing emotional support in interpersonal relationships. We present, what is to our …

Improving the interaction between artificial systems and their users is an important issue in
artificial intelligence. In current trends in social robotics, this is accomplished by making such …

For social robots, like in all other digitally interactive systems, products, services, and
devices, positive user experience (UX) is necessary in order to achieve the intended …

This study investigated the effects of touch characteristics that change the strength and the
naturalness of the emotions perceived by people in human-robot touch interaction with an …

Robot-initiated touch is a promising mode of expression that would allow robot caregivers to
perform physical tasks (instrumental touch) and provide comfort (affective touch) in …

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 …

Various technological devices, especially information communications technologies (ICTs),
have become increasingly remarkable in higher education to help develop students' skills …

Aspired to build intelligent agents that can assist humans in daily life, researchers and
engineers, both from academia and industry, have kept advancing the state-of-the-art in …