| Abstrakt: |
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 application would be the development of a robot's behavior in scenarios where touch interaction is needed, for example, social robots focused on medical applications. Although before-touch situations are essential to achieve natural touch interactions between people and robots, they receive less attention than after-touch situations. This study reports pre-touch reaction distance analysis results around touchable upper body parts, i.e., shoulders, elbows, and hands, based on human–human pre-touch interaction. We also analyzed the effects of gender, approach side, speed, and acclimation in modeling the pre-touch reaction distance, and found that the distance around the hands is smaller than the distance around the shoulders and elbows, and speed and acclimation affect the distance. On the other hand, gender and approach side do not significantly affect the pre-touch reaction distance. Finally, we implemented the results in a male-looking android and confirmed that it reacted toward pre-touch based on the obtained model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
