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Towards Humanlike Social Touch for Prosthetics and Sociable Robotics: Handshake Experiments and Finger Phalange Indentations

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Advances in Robotics (FIRA 2009)

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The handshake has become the most acceptable gesture of greeting in many cultures. Replicating the softness of the human hand can contribute to the improvement of the emotional healing process of people who have lost their hands by enabling the concealment of prosthetic hand usage during handshake interactions. Likewise, sociable robots of the future will exchange greetings with humans. The soft humanlike hands during handshakes would be able to address the safety and acceptance issues of robotic hands. This paper investigates the areas of contact during handshake interactions. After the areas of high contact were known, indentation experiments were conducted to obtain the benchmark data for duplication with synthetic skins.

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  1. Social Robotics Laboratory, Interactive and Digital Media Institute, Singapore

    John-John Cabibihan & Shuzhi Sam Ge

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, Singapore, 117576

    John-John Cabibihan, Raditya Pradipta, Yun Zhi Chew & Shuzhi Sam Ge

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  1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

    Jong-Hwan Kim

  2. Social Robotics Lab, Interactive Digital Media Institute, and Edutainment Robotics Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117576, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat  & Abdullah Al Manum  & 

  4. Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

    Norbert Jesse

  5. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, P.O. Box, 117576, Singapore

    Sadasivan Puthusserypady K

  6. Institut für Informatik/I12, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3,, D-85748, Garching b. München, Germany

    Ulrich Rückert

  7. School of Software Engineering and Data Communications, Queensland University of Technology, P.O. Box, Brisbane, Australia

    Joaquin Sitte

  8. Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, P.O. Box, Paderborn, Germany

    Ulf Witkowski

  9. Interactive & Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore, Blk E3A #02-04, 7 Engineering Drive 1, 117574, Singapore

    Ryohei Nakatsu

  10. University of Manitoba, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Jacky Baltes

  11. Autonomous Agents Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, P.O. Box, R3T 2N2, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    John Anderson

  12. Dept. of Education in Technology & Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 32000, Haifa, Israel

    Igor Verner

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Cabibihan, JJ., Pradipta, R., Chew, Y.Z., Ge, S.S. (2009). Towards Humanlike Social Touch for Prosthetics and Sociable Robotics: Handshake Experiments and Finger Phalange Indentations. In: Kim, JH., et al. Advances in Robotics. FIRA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5744. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03983-6_11

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