Touch plays a prominent role in communicating emotions and intensifying interpersonal
communication. Affective haptics is an emerging field, which focuses on the analysis …

For some years now, the use of social, anthropomorphic robots in various situations has
been on the rise. These are robots developed to interact with humans and are equipped with …

This study explores the capabilities of ChatGPT, specifically in relation to consciousness and
its performance in the Turing Test. The article begins by examining the diverse perspectives …

Objective: The last decades have seen a surge of robots for physical training and work
assistance. How to best control these interfaces is unknown, although arguably the …

This paper deals with the haptic affective social interaction during a greeting handshaking
between a human and a humanoid robot. The goal of this work is to study how the haptic …

Artificial life is a research field studying what processes and properties define life, based on
a multidisciplinary approach spanning the physical, natural, and computational sciences …

Due to the lack of physical touch, social distancing caused by COVID-19 makes it difficult to
convey social intentions through handshakes. To mitigate this situation, one promising …

According to the ecological theory of perception–action, perception is primarily of
affordances, which are directly perceivable opportunities for behavior. The current study …

In this paper, we study the influence of a handshake in the human emotional bond to a robot.
In particular, we evaluate the human willingness to help a robot whether the robot first …

Future robots may need lighthearted physical interaction capabilities to connect with people
in meaningful ways. To begin exploring how users perceive playful human-robot hand-to …