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 …

Social robots are being designed to help support people's well-being in domestic and public
environments. To address increasing incidences of psychological and emotional difficulties …

Animallike robot companions such as robotic seal Paro are increasingly used in dementia
care due to the positive effects that interaction with these robots can have on the well-being …

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 …

During social interactions, people use auditory, visual, and haptic cues to convey their
thoughts, emotions, and intentions. Due to weight, energy, and other hardware constraints, it …

Touch is one of the most essential and effective means to convey affective feelings and
intentions in human communication. For a social robot, the ability to recognize human touch …

Human touching the robot to convey intentions or emotions is an essential communication
pathway during physical Human-Robot Interaction (pHRI). Therefore, advanced service …

Background: Mediated social touch has been widely studied for remote affective
communication in the field of human-computer interaction. Goal: We conducted this literature …

Artificial tactile systems can facilitate the life of people suffering from a loss of the sense of
touch. These systems use sensors and digital, battery-operated embedded units for data …

This letter presents a neural architecture search to optimize tactile elaboration systems
taking into account the computational cost of the whole pipeline consisting of data …