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Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking

Qiaoqiao Ren (UGent) and Tony Belpaeme (UGent)
(2022) SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1. In Lecture notes in computer science 13817. p.120-129
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Tactile interaction plays a crucial role in interactions between people. Touch can, for example, help people calm down and lower physiological stress responses. Consequently, it is believed that tactile and haptic interaction matter also in human-robot interaction. We study if the intensity of the tactile interaction has an impact on people, and do so by studying whether different intensities of tactile interaction modulate physiological measures and task performance. We use a paradigm in which a small humanoid robot is used to encourage risk-taking behaviour, relying on peer encouragement to take more risks which might lead to a higher pay-off, but potentially also to higher losses. For this, the Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART) is used as a proxy for the propensity to take risks. We study four conditions, one control condition in which the task is completed without a robot, and three experimental conditions in which a robot is present that encourages risk-taking behaviour with different degrees of tactile interaction. The results show that both low-intensity and high-intensity tactile interaction increase people’s risk-taking behaviour. However, low-intensity tactile interaction increases comfort and lowers stress, whereas high-intensity touch does not.
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Heart rate variability, Risk-taking behaviour, Peer pressure, Nonverbal communication, Haptic interaction, Tactile interaction, Human-robot touch

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Ren, Qiaoqiao, and Tony Belpaeme. “Tactile Interaction with a Robot Leads to Increased Risk-Taking.” SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1, edited by Filippo Cavallo et al., vol. 13817, Springer, 2022, pp. 120–29, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_11.
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Ren, Q., & Belpaeme, T. (2022). Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking. In F. Cavallo, J.-J. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, … S. Sam Ge (Eds.), SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1 (Vol. 13817, pp. 120–129). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_11
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Ren, Qiaoqiao, and Tony Belpaeme. 2022. “Tactile Interaction with a Robot Leads to Increased Risk-Taking.” In SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1, edited by Filippo Cavallo, John-John Cabibihan, Laura Fiorini, Alessandra Sorrentino, Hongsheng He, Xiaorui Liu, Yoshio Matsumoto, and Shuzhi Sam Ge, 13817:120–29. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_11.
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Ren, Qiaoqiao, and Tony Belpaeme. 2022. “Tactile Interaction with a Robot Leads to Increased Risk-Taking.” In SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1, ed by. Filippo Cavallo, John-John Cabibihan, Laura Fiorini, Alessandra Sorrentino, Hongsheng He, Xiaorui Liu, Yoshio Matsumoto, and Shuzhi Sam Ge, 13817:120–129. Cham: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_11.
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Ren Q, Belpaeme T. Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking. In: Cavallo F, Cabibihan J-J, Fiorini L, Sorrentino A, He H, Liu X, et al., editors. SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1. Cham: Springer; 2022. p. 120–9.
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Q. Ren and T. Belpaeme, “Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking,” in SOCIAL ROBOTICS, ICSR 2022, PT1, Florence, Italy, 2022, vol. 13817, pp. 120–129.
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