Title :
Evaluation of the effects of the shape of the artificial hand on the quality of the interaction - Natural appearance vs. symbolic appearance
Author :
Zecca, Massimiliano ; Iiida, Fumiya ; Endo, Nobutsuna ; Mizoguchi, Yu. ; Endo, Keita ; Kawabata, Yousuke ; Itoh, Kazuko ; Takanishi, Atsuo
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Biomed. Eng., Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Personal robots and robot technology (RT)-based assistive devices are expected to play a major role in our elderly-dominated society, by interacting with surrounding people both physically and psychologically. A fundamental role during the interaction is of course played by the hand. In this paper we present the evaluation of the effect of hand shape to the quality of the interaction, in particular during handshake.
Keywords :
geriatrics; human-robot interaction; manipulators; medical control systems; RT; artificial hand shape effects evaluation; elderly-dominated society; handshake; interaction quality; personal robots; robot technology-based assistive devices; Educational institutions; Humans; Legged locomotion; Semantics; Service robots; Shape; Soft hand; emotion expression; handshake; humanoid robotics;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
978-1-60558-404-1
