Abstract. As robotic platforms are designed for human robot interaction applications, a full body sense of touch, or “sensitive skin,” becomes important. The Huggable is a new ...
- As robots become an everyday part of the complicated environment of the human world it will be important for such systems to feature a full body sense of touch capable of detecti...
Despite much research on companion robots and affective virtual characters, a comprehensive discussion on a generic architecture is lacking. We compile a list of possible requireme...
Bas R. Steunebrink, Nieske L. Vergunst, Christian ...
Affect sensitivity is of the utmost importance for a robot companion to be able to display socially intelligent behaviour, a key requirement for sustaining long-term interactions ...
The ability of artificial companions (virtual agents or robots) to establish meaningful relationships with users is still limited. In humans, a key aspect of such ability is empath...