Entitled 'The Power of Affective Touch', my Master’s thesis investigated the use of touch as a form of communication within the world of social robotics. Using a variety of materials and movements, a prototype was designed to test the human response.

My final year projected examined if it was possible for an industrial robotic arm to successfully imitate and communicate human emotions without altering its appearances or adding an audio component.

Publications:

Kelly Androutsopoulos, Nikos Gorogiannis, M Loomes, M Margolis, Giuseppe Primiero, Franco Raimondi, Puja Varsani, Nick Weldin, Aleksandar Zivanovic. 2014, A racket-based robot to teach first-year computer science. 7th European Lisp Symposium, pages 54-61.

Puja Varsani, Ralph Moseley, Simon Jones, Carl James-Reynolds, Eris Chinellato, and Juan Carlos Augusto. 2018, Chapter 15 Sensorial Computing. New Directions in Third Wave Human-Computer Interaction: Volume 1 -Technologies, pages 265-284