Softness, warmth, and responsiveness improve robot hugs

AE Block, KJ Kuchenbecker - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2019 - Springer
Hugs are one of the first forms of contact and affection humans experience. Due to their
prevalence and health benefits, roboticists are naturally interested in having robots one day …

Chalearn LAP challenges on self-reported personality recognition and non-verbal behavior forecasting during social dyadic interactions: Dataset, design, and results

C Palmero, G Barquero, JCSJ Junior… - … Social Behavior in …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
This paper summarizes the 2021 ChaLearn Looking at People Challenge on Understanding
Social Behavior in Dyadic and Small Group Interactions (DYAD), which featured two tracks …

First impressions: A survey on vision-based apparent personality trait analysis

JCSJ Junior, Y Güçlütürk, M Pérez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personality analysis has been widely studied in psychology, neuropsychology, and signal
processing fields, among others. From the past few years, it also became an attractive …

Do i have a personality? endowing care robots with context-dependent personality traits

A Andriella, H Siqueira, D Fu, S Magg, P Barros… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Recent studies have revealed the key importance of modelling personality in robots to
improve interaction quality by empowering them with social-intelligence capabilities. Most …

Multi-modal feature fusion for better understanding of human personality traits in social human–robot interaction

Z Shen, A Elibol, NY Chong - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the dynamic nature of human–robot interaction becomes increasingly prevalent in our
daily life, there is a great demand for enabling the robot to better understand human …

Understanding nonverbal communication cues of human personality traits in human-robot interaction

Z Shen, A Elibol, NY Chong - IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing presence of robots in our daily life, there is a strong need and demand
for the strategies to acquire a high quality interaction between robots and users by enabling …

How should a robot react before people's touch?: Modeling a pre-touch reaction distance for a robot's face

M Shiomi, K Shatani, T Minato… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study addresses the pre touch reaction distance effects in human-robot touch
interaction with an android named ERICA that has a feminine, human-like appearance. Past …

“I know how you feel” The importance of interaction style on users' acceptance in an entertainment scenario

A Andriella, R Huertas-Garcia, S Forgas-Coll… - Interaction …, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
In this article, we aim to evaluate the role of robots' personality-driven behavioural patterns
on users' intention to use in an entertainment scenario. Toward such a goal, we designed …

Modeling a pre-touch reaction distance around socially touchable upper body parts of a robot

DA Cuello Mejía, H Sumioka, H Ishiguro, M Shiomi - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Analyzing and modeling a pre-touch reaction in human–human
interaction over upper body parts for implementation in human–robot interaction. A potential …

Analysis of personality and EEG features in emotion recognition using machine learning techniques to classify arousal and valence labels

LA Martínez-Tejada, Y Maruyama… - Machine Learning and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
We analyzed the contribution of electroencephalogram (EEG) data, age, sex, and
personality traits to emotion recognition processes—through the classification of arousal …