This project focuses on human-robot social interaction (HRSI) and concerns the fields of robotics, neuroscience, psychology, and movement science. It aims to study the cognitive states such as engagement and emotional states of humans who interact with a robot in social games based on different hand gestures with or without physical contact.

The engagement of humans and its affect will be measured through behavioral measures (motion capture) and physiological measures (electroencephalography, heart rate, skin conductance).

Three different interaction experiments will be conducted with gradual physical and social interactions with the robot:

• rock-paper-scissors (RPS) game;
• rope jumping (RJ), and handshaking (HS);
• HexGame (HG)

Different kinds of robots will be used with gradual anthropomorphism: humanoid robots, compliant arm robot with robotic hands, bi-arm compliant robots.

The partnership is composed of 3 permanent members of the Neurorythms team at the LORIA lab of université de Lorraine (UL), and 2 permanent members of the Department of Human Intelligence Systems from Kyutech. Students (Masters and Phds) will complete the teams.