English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Receiving a hug is one of the best ways to feel socially supported, and thelack of social touch can have severe negative effects on an individual'swell-being. Based on previous research both within and outside of HRI, wepropose six tenets ("commandments") of natural and enjoyable robotic hugging: ahugging robot should be soft, be warm, be human sized, visually perceive itsuser, adjust its embrace to the user's size and position, and reliably releasewhen the user wants to end the hug. Prior work validated the first two tenets,and the final four are new. We followed all six tenets to create a new roboticplatform, HuggieBot 2.0, that has a soft, warm, inflated body (HuggieChest) anduses visual and haptic sensing to deliver closed-loop hugging. We firstverified the outward appeal of this platform in comparison to the previousPR2-based HuggieBot 1.0 via an online video-watching study involving 117 users.We then conducted an in-person experiment in which 32 users each exchangedeight hugs with HuggieBot 2.0, experiencing all combinations of visual huginitiation, haptic sizing, and haptic releasing. The results show that addinghaptic reactivity definitively improves user perception a hugging robot,largely verifying our four new tenets and illuminating several interestingopportunities for further improvement.

The Six Hug Commandments: Design and Evaluation of a Human-Sized Hugging Robot with Visual and Haptic Perception