Haptic Intelligence

Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs

2018

Miscellaneous

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Hugs are one of the first forms of contact and affection humans experience. Due to their prevalence and health benefits, we want to enable robots to safely hug humans. This research strives to create and study a high fidelity robotic system that provides emotional support to people through hugs. This paper outlines our previous work evaluating human responses to a prototype’s physical and behavioral characteristics, and then it lays out our ongoing and future work.

Author(s): Alexis E. Block and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Year: 2018
Month: March
Department(s): Haptic Intelligence
Research Project(s): How Should Robots Hug?
Bibtex Type: Miscellaneous (misc)
Paper Type: Workshop
Address: Chicago, USA
DOI: 10.1145/3173386.3176905
How Published: Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop
State: Published
URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173386.3176905

BibTex 

@misc{Block18-HRIWS-Supporting,
  title = {Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs},
  author = {Block, Alexis E. and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.},
  howpublished = {Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop},
  address = {Chicago, USA},
  month = mar,
  year = {2018},
  doi = {10.1145/3173386.3176905},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3173386.3176905},
  month_numeric = {3}
}