“Touch” is an indispensable component of human interaction in collaborative environments. The important role of haptics manifests in different forms ranging from assistance in physical task to social interaction. For the seamless incorporation of robots in human environments the ability to physically interact with them in a meaningful way is essential. Haptics enriches the interaction capabilities towards intuitive full multimodal interaction and improves task performance. While research in other fields of human-robot interaction such as communication via speech and gestures is rather advanced, the topic of haptic interaction is still largely underrepresented. This workshop is dedicated to the most recent developments in the field of haptic human-robot interaction. Topics presented by world-renowned scientist include human-human haptic interaction paradigms, haptic language, intention identification, emerging strategies in physical cooperation, application and evaluation in robotic systems ranging from teleoperated to fully autonomous robots.
Abderrahmane Kheddar, Professor, Codirector AIST-CNRS Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory JRL, AIST Tsukuba, Japan
Kyle B. Reed, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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