Paper Info
Title
Effect of robot's active touch on people's motivation
Abstract
This paper presents the effect of a robot's active touch for improving people's motivation. For services in the education and healthcare fields, a robot might be useful for improving the motivation of performing such repetitive and monotonous tasks as exercising or taking medicine. Previous research demonstrated with a robot the effect of user touch on improving its impressions, but they did not clarify whether a robot's touch, especially an active touch, has enough influence on people's motive. We implemented an active touch behavior and experimentally investigated its effect on motivation. In the experiment, a robot requested participants to perform a monotonous task with a robot's active touch, a passive touch, or no touch. The result of experiment showed that an active touch by a robot increased the number of working actions and the amount of working time for the task. This suggests that a robot's active touch can support people to improve their motivation. We believe that a robot's active touch behavior is useful for such robot's services as education and healthcare.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1957656.1957819
Human-Robot Interaction
Keywords
Field
DocType
user touch,healthcare field,active touch,monotonous task,previous research,enough influence,active touch behavior,passive touch,human robot interaction,healthcare
Social robot,Haptic interaction,Computer science,Simulation,Human–computer interaction,Atmospheric measurements,Robot,Multimedia,Active touch
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121 E-ISBN : 978-1-4503-0561-7
978-1-4503-0561-7
27
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.10
26
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kayako Nakagawa1755.61
Masahiro Shiomi293182.89
Kazuhiko Shinozawa334331.97
Reo Matsumura4646.96
Hiroshi Ishiguro54680513.13
Norihiro Hagita62877259.10