Affective handshake with a humanoid robot: How do participants perceive and combine its facial and haptic expressions?

摘要: This study presents an experiment highlighting how participants combine facial expressions and haptic feedback to perceive emotions when interacting with expressive humanoid robot. Participants were asked interact the robot through a handshake behavior while looking at its expressions. Experimental data examined within information integration theory framework. Results revealed that combined Facial Haptic cues additively evaluate Valence, Arousal, Dominance dimensions. The relative importance of each modality was different across emotional gave more evaluating Valence. They Arousal Dominance.