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Tinkering with social touch technology
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023 Social touch technology, haptic technology to mediate social touch interactions, potentially contributes to reducing negative effects of skin hunger and social isolation.
Angelika Mader +4 more
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Exploring views on affective haptic devices in times of COVID-19
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 Affective haptic devices (AHDs) are communication technologies utilizing the sense of touch, and include mediated social touch (MST), symbolic haptic messaging, and awareness systems that, for example, let one feel another person's heartbeat.
Sima Ipakchian Askari +3 more
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Uncovering terra incognita in the AHD design space: A review of affective haptic devices
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 Affective haptic devices (AHDs) have been developed with the aim of communicating touch acts, symbolic messages, emotions, and/or providing a sense of social awareness.
Sima Ipakchian Askari +3 more
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Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 Touch as a modality in social communication has been getting more attention with recent developments in wearable technology and an increase in awareness of how limited physical contact can lead to touch starvation and feelings of depression.
Xin Zhu +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In recent years, there has been a significant increase in research on mediated communication via social touch. Previous studies indicated that mediated social touch (MST) can induce similar positive outcomes to interpersonal touch.
Martijn T. van Hattum +4 more
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Endowing a NAO Robot With Practical Social-Touch Perception
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 Social touch is essential to everyday interactions, but current socially assistive robots have limited touch-perception capabilities. Rather than build entirely new robotic systems, we propose to augment existing rigid-bodied robots with an external ...
Rachael Bevill Burns +6 more
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Enhancing Higher Order Thinking Skills through Utilization of Technology in Social Studies [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 This article departs from the author’s analysis that, in building a new paradigm of Social Studies Education, learners as human beings are seen as subjects who think, act, are creative, constructive, and manipulative.
Hasni +4 more
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Active and Passive Mediated Social Touch with Vibrotactile Stimuli in Mobile Communication
Information, 2022 Tactile technology in mobile devices makes mediated social touch (MST) a possibility. MST with vibrotactile stimuli can be applied in future online social communication applications.
Qianhui Wei, Jun Hu, Min Li
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Per-forming the Sense of Touch: A Spatio-Temporal Embodied Technology of Resistance
Body, Space & Technology Journal, 2020 How does resistance and struggle arise and from where? What embodied mechanism and social conditions allow for thought to be thought and for action to emerge?
Maud Lise Lannen
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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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