Developing furry robots that can detect and respond to emotional touch requires soft touch sensors and gesture detection algorithms. We developed a fabric touch sensor and a system that could detect different touches—like pats, scratches, and tickles.
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> Cang, X. L., Bucci, P., Strang, Allen, J., MacLean, K. E., and Liu, H. Y. S., “Different Strokes and Different Folks: Economical Dynamic Surface Sensing and Affect-Related Touch Recognition.” In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’15). ACM, Seattle, WA, USA, Nov 2015, pp. 147-154.