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An Online Survey on the Perception of Mediated Social Touch Interaction and Device Design [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2022 Social touch is essential for our social interactions, communication, and well-being. It has been shown to reduce anxiety and loneliness; and is a key channel to transmit emotions for which words are not sufficient, such as love, sympathy, reassurance, etc.
Carine Rognon +6 more
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Do digital hugs work? Re-embodying our social lives online with digital tact
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic led to social restrictions that often prevented us from hugging the ones we love. This absence helped some realize just how important these interactions are to our sense of care and connection.
Mark M. James, John Francis Leader
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Humans are by nature social beings tuned to communicate and interact from the very beginning of their lives. The sense of touch represents the most direct and intimate channel of communication and a powerful means of connection between the self and the ...
Letizia Della Longa +2 more
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Arts, 2023 Today, some of the most widely attended concerts are in virtual reality (VR). For example, the videogame Fortnite recently attracted 12.3 million viewers sitting in homes all over the world to a VR Travis Scott rap concert.
Tara Venkatesan, Qian Janice Wang
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Journal of Social Studies, 2021 Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) becomes a new form of communication. Interpersonal communication has now moved into cyberspace thanks to CMC's role.
Novianto Yudha Laksana, Ahda Fadhilah
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Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2022 Besides public health, life and living themselves have been constantly adapting to rapid changes, due to the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Chehak Gidwani +2 more
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Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction, 2012 This position paper outlines the first stages in an ongoing PhD project on mediated social touch, and the effects mediated touch can have on someone's affective state. It is argued that touch is a profound communication channel for humans, and that communication through touch can, to some extent, occur through mediation.
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Tactile C fibers and their contributions to pleasant sensations and to tactile allodynia
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014 In humans converging evidence indicates that affective aspects of touch are signaled by low threshold mechanoreceptive C tactile (CT) afferents. Analyses of electrophysiological recordings, psychophysical studies in denervated subjects, and functional ...
Jaquette eLiljencrantz +2 more
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IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, 2020 Various communication systems have been developed to integrate the haptic channel in digital communication. Future directions of such haptic technologies are moving towards realistic virtual reality applications and human-robot social interaction.
Adrian David Cheok
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 In spring 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a global pandemic and several lockdowns were followed in Germany. To weaken the spread of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, people were required to reduce their face-to-face contact with others.
Jennifer V. Meier +2 more
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