Madeleine Rischer

Designing Touch for Trauma-Informed Social Robots: A Design Space for Direct and Indirect Actuation

Madeleine Rischer, Benedikt Bußmann

Touch is a fundamental communication modality in human-robot interaction and may support grounding, emotional regulation, and stress reduction in therapeutic contexts. However, designing touch-based interactions for individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) requires…Read more