Affective touch for robotic companions

Authors:
Walter Dan Stiehl;Cynthia Breazeal
Affiliations:
Robotic Life Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA;Robotic Life Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
ACII'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction
Year:
2005

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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 type of therapeutic robotic companion based upon relational touch interactions. The initial use of neural networks to classify the affective content of touch is described.