Social touch for robots

Title	Social touch for robots
Summary	something with social robots
Keywords	social robots, social touch, recognition, behavior generation, HRIProperty "Keywords" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user.
TimeFrame
References	You can read some papers by Breazeal and Dautenhahn about social robots.
Prerequisites	Willing to write a conference paper
Author
Supervisor	Martin Cooney
Level	Master
Status	Open

-We will decide the exact question after discussing. One possibility is: Touch is a powerful communication modality whose code we are just recently beginning to crack--we want to know how robots can leverage social touch in interactions to help people to feel good. Another possibility is to do something about robots/AI in education or for healthcare. -Software -WPs will include gathering requirements then creating an architecture, a recognition module, and behavior generation module, and getting feedback on the design. -The project should lead to a paper. Demos/events (or for education, something which we can actually use with our students) would be nice.