Title :
Development of a Handshake Robot System for Embodied Interaction with Humans
Author :
Jindai, Mitsuru ; Watanabe, Tomio ; Shibata, Satoru ; Yamamoto, Tomonori
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Syst. Eng., Okayama Prefectural Univ.
Abstract :
It is expected that robots will play an important role in social welfare and service for the older citizens. These robots should display an emotional aspect to make them more acceptable to humans. Humans shake hands in order to greet each other and display a feeling of closeness. A handshake is the embodied interaction with contact by which humans can directly share embodied rhythms. In this paper, we develop a handshake robot system for embodied interaction. The robot can generate the handshake approaching motion that is acceptable to human emotion by using secondary delay elements from the trajectory of a human hand. The effectiveness of this handshake robot is demonstrated by sensory evaluation
Keywords :
emotion recognition; geriatrics; human computer interaction; motion control; position control; robots; social sciences computing; embodied interaction; embodied rhythms; emotional aspect; handshake approaching motion; handshake robot system; older citizens; secondary delay elements; sensory evaluation; social welfare; Biological system modeling; Computer science; Delay; Displays; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Medical services; Motion analysis; Rhythm; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2006. ROMAN 2006. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hatfield
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0564-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0565-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314484
