‘Give me a hug’: the effects of touch and autonomy on people’s responses to embodied social agents. Henriette Cramer 1 , Nicander Kemper 1 , Alia Amin 2 , Vanessa Evers 1 , Bob Wielinga 1 1 Human-Computer Studies Lab, University of Amsterdam Science Park 107, 1098 XG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands E-mail: hcramer@science.uva.nl 2 CWI P.O. Box 94079, 1090 GB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Abstract Embodied social agents are programmed to display human-like social behaviour to increase intuitiveness of interacting with these agents. It is not yet clear to what extent people respond to agents’ social behaviours. One example is touch. Despite robots’ 1