Exploring the role of robotic kissing “Kissenger” in digital communication through alan turing's imitation game

Zhang, Emma Yann; Cheok, Adrian David; Arsovski, Sasa; Muniru, Idris Oladele

doi:10.1109/iecon.2017.8216484

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“…This paper presents groundbreaking studies and results that have never been published before in our papers (Zhang and Cheok, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016;Cheok and Kissenger, 2019). In Experiment 2 (the Haptic Imitation Game), we have an improved experimental design and a larger sample size of 100, as compared to 20 in our previous experiment (Zhang et al, 2017). Our new results show that interrogators have a higher chance of winning the Imitation Game when they use the kissing device, which suggests that haptic information transmitted through remote touch plays an important role in the Turing test.…”

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Electrical machine for remote kissing, and engineering measurement of its remote communication effects, including modified Turing test

Cheok¹,

Zhang²

2020

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Various communication systems have been developed to integrate the haptic channel in digital communication. Future directions of such haptic technologies are moving towards realistic virtual reality applications and human-robot social interaction. With the digitisation of touch, robots equipped with touch sensors and actuators can communicate with humans on a more emotional and intimate level, such as sharing a hug or kiss just like humans do. This paper presents the design guideline, implementation and evaluations of a novel haptic kissing machine for smart phones -the Kissenger machine. The key novelties and contributions of the paper are: (i) A novel haptic kissing device for mobile phones, which uses dynamic perpendicular force stimulation to transmit realistic sensations of kissing in order to enhance intimacy and emotional connection of digital communication; (ii) extensive evaluations of the Kissenger machine, including a lab experiment that compares mediated kissing with Kissenger to real kissing, a unique haptic Turing test that involves the first academic study of human-machine kiss, and a field study of the effects of Kissenger on long distance relationships. The first experiment showed that mediated kissing with Kissenger elicited similar ratings for pleasure, arousal and user experience as real kissing. Experiment 2 confirmed our hypothesis that interrogators have a higher chance of winning the Imitation Game (Turing test) when Kissenger is used during the game. Results from experiment 3 showed that long relationship couples who used Kissenger for a week experienced increased relationship satisfaction and decreased perceived stress.

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Electrical machine for remote kissing, and engineering measurement of its remote communication effects, including modified Turing test

Cheok¹,

Zhang²

2020

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“…This paper presents groundbreaking studies and results that have never been published before in our papers [4], [53], [55]. In Experiment 2 (the Haptic Imitation Game), we have an improved experimental design and a larger sample size of 100, as compared to 20 in our previous experiment [54]. Our new results show that interrogators have a higher chance of winning the Imitation Game when they use the kissing device, which suggests that haptic information transmitted through remote touch plays an important role in the Turing test.…”

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An Instrument for Remote Kissing and Engineering Measurement of Its Communication Effects Including Modified Turing Test

Cheok¹

2020

IEEE Open J. Comput. Soc.

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Various communication systems have been developed to integrate the haptic channel in digital communication. Future directions of such haptic technologies are moving towards realistic virtual reality applications and human-robot social interaction. With the digitisation of touch, robots equipped with touch sensors and actuators can communicate with humans on a more emotional and intimate level, such as sharing a hug or kiss just like humans do. This paper presents the design guideline, implementation and evaluations of a novel haptic kissing machine for smart phones -the Kissenger machine. The key novelties and contributions of the paper are: (i) A novel haptic kissing device for mobile phones, which uses dynamic perpendicular force stimulation to transmit realistic sensations of kissing in order to enhance intimacy and emotional connection of digital communication; (ii) Extensive evaluations of the Kissenger machine, including a lab experiment that compares mediated kissing with Kissenger to real kissing, a unique haptic Turing test that involves the first academic study of human-machine kiss, and a field study of the effects of Kissenger on long distance relationships. The first experiment showed that mediated kissing with Kissenger elicited similar ratings for pleasure, arousal and user experience as real kissing. Experiment 2 confirmed our hypothesis that interrogators have a higher chance of winning the Imitation Game (Turing test) when Kissenger is used during the game. Results from experiment 3 showed that long relationship couples who used Kissenger for a week experienced increased relationship satisfaction and decreased perceived stress.INDEX TERMS Force feedback, haptic interfaces, human-robot interaction, remote kissing, Turing test.

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“…Traditional Internet communication was previously dominated by text, images, audio and video. However, digitization of other sensory modalities such as touch [24], taste [4,17], and smell [4,16] transforming the current Internet communication into a multisensory Internet communication. In relation to teaching and training, MAR can be used to provide enhanced interactions using virtual objects, user guidance, and force feedback [9,10,19].…”

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Multisensory Augmented Reality

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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Multisensory augmented reality enables content developers to generate more realistic, sensory rich user experiences. Applications and research related to multisensory augmented reality expands through several areas such as education, medicine, human-machine interactions, human-food interactions, marketing, and neuroscience. Aim of this workshop is to gather researchers and industry representatives who are involved in multisensory augmented reality research to discuss the current state-of-the-art in the field, define future research directions, form new collaborations, and come up with future publication plans. We believe that this workshop would enhance the participants' experience of the Interact 2021 and encourage more participants to attend the main conference.

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Exploring the role of robotic kissing “Kissenger” in digital communication through alan turing's imitation game

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Electrical machine for remote kissing, and engineering measurement of its remote communication effects, including modified Turing test

Electrical machine for remote kissing, and engineering measurement of its remote communication effects, including modified Turing test

An Instrument for Remote Kissing and Engineering Measurement of Its Communication Effects Including Modified Turing Test

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