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Touching the Void -- Introducing CoST: Corpus of Social Touch

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Dirk K.J. HeylenAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '14: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Pages 120 - 127

https://doi.org/10.1145/2663204.2663242

Published: 12 November 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Touch behavior is of great importance during social interaction. To transfer the tactile modality from interpersonal interaction to other areas such as Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and remote communication automatic recognition of social touch is necessary. This paper introduces CoST: Corpus of Social Touch, a collection containing 7805 instances of 14 different social touch gestures. The gestures were performed in three variations: gentle, normal and rough, on a sensor grid wrapped around a mannequin arm. Recognition of the rough variations of these 14 gesture classes using Bayesian classifiers and Support Vector Machines (SVMs) resulted in an overall accuracy of 54% and 53%, respectively. Furthermore, this paper provides more insight into the challenges of automatic recognition of social touch gestures, including which gestures can be recognized more easily and which are more difficult to recognize.

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Index Terms

Touching the Void -- Introducing CoST: Corpus of Social Touch
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Machine learning
    1. Learning paradigms
      1. Supervised learning
        Supervised learning by classification
    2. Machine learning approaches
      1. Classification and regression trees
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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DOI:10.1145/2663204

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