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Evaluation of the Handshake Turing Test for anthropomorphic Robots
Handshakes are fundamental and common greeting and parting gestures among
humans. They are important in shaping first impressions as people tend to
associate character traits with a person's handshake. To widen the social
acceptability of robots and make a lasting first impression, a good handshaking
ability is an important skill for social robots. Therefore, to test the
human-likeness of a robot handshake, we propose an initial Turing-like test,
primarily for the hardware interface to future AI agents. We evaluate the test
on an android robot's hand to determine if it can pass for a human hand. This
is an important aspect of Turing tests for motor intelligence where humans have
to interact with a physical device rather than a virtual one. We also propose
some modifications to the definition of a Turing test for such scenarios taking
into account that a human needs to interact with a physical medium.Comment: Accepted as a Late Breaking Report in The 15th Annual ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 202