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A Nine-Item Questionnaire for Measuring the Social Disfordance of Mediated Social Touch Technologies [PDF]
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2017 Mediated Social Touch (MST) technologies focus on enhancing a communication experience by sensing, transmitting, and simulating social touch between remote partners. With interest in developing MST technologies continuing to grow, it is important to create standardized methods for measuring the effect of these novel systems. We designed and validated a
Kenya Mejia, Svetlana Yarosh
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Generation NeoTouch: how digital touch is impacting the way we are intimate
Internet Policy Review, 2020 The essay is written in the form of a magazine article published in 2039 – eleven years after the introduction of NeoTouch, a technology facilitating digital touch as human-to-human communication based on a brain-computer interface (BCI).
Christine Würth
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It has touched us all: Commentary on the social implications of touch during the COVID-19 pandemic
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2020 This paper considers the political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic through a focus on the sense of touch. It begins by briefly outlining current sociological and philosophical theories of touch as an empathetic, pervasive, and social sense.
Isobel Sigley
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The touch of the real. Il New Historicism e il potere del reale psichiatrico in Foucault [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2014 [The touch of the real. The New Historicism and the power of the psychiatric real in Foucault] What is the meaning of “touch of the real”? This paper connects the new historicist Greenblatt’s phrase to Foucault’s use of the term real during his lecture ...
VARRICCHIO, Francesco
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Arts, 2023 Visually impaired and blind (VIB) people as a community face several access barriers when using technology. For users of specialist technology, such as digital audio workstations (DAWs), these access barriers become increasingly complex—often stemming ...
Jacob Harrison +4 more
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E-learning adoption in hospitality education: An analysis with special focus on Singapore [PDF]
Journal of Tourism, Heritage & Services Marketing, 2016 This paper explores issues and challenges in the adoption of e-learning in hospitality education, with special reference to Singapore. Hospitality being a ‘high-touch’ profession and many hospitality related skills being largely intangible, there has ...
Revi Nair, Babu P. George
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Aviation lecturers in the new normal world of learning [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 An aviation lecturer in the new normal world of learning have to understand the changes surrounding aneducational circumstance in the aspects of economy, society, politics, administration, environment, and technology, together with the pandemic of COVID ...
Pisitkasem Arunya
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, 2017 The skin not only protects the body from harm but, through receptors found in the skin, also enables the sense of touch. The sense of touch is used to obtain information about the world outside the body, for example, the shape and weight of a book or the texture of its cover.
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ONLINE CULTURE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
JALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literacy), 2021 The virus of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the government to apply stay-at-home rules, to anticipate the spread of the Novel Corona Virus which is increasingly spreading through human social activities.
Hayati Nupus
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Estimates of Social Contact in a Middle School Based on Self-Report and Wireless Sensor Data. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Estimates of contact among children, used for infectious disease transmission models and understanding social patterns, historically rely on self-report logs.
Molly Leecaster +6 more
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