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Tactile Hypersensitivity and “Overwhelming Subjectivity” in the Touch Experience of People With Congenital Deafblindness: Implications for a Touch-Based Pedagogy

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2020
Tactile hypersensitivity, sometimes referred to as tactile aversion, shyness or defensiveness, is a frequently cited challenge for support partners and educators in working with people with congenital deafblindness (CDB). Touch is the most fundamental of
Kirsten Costain
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Knitting out the Touch Hunger: A Research Project to Design the Overcoming of Post-Pandemic Emotional Fear of Touching

open access: yesFashion Highlight, 2023
The pandemic has altered human attitudes affecting common gestures: hugs, kisses, hands shaking, all the human behaviors related to touching have become dangerous, generating what scientists called “touch hunger”. If with touch we define ourselves as our
Martina Motta, GIOVANNI MARIA CONTI
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Electrotactile displays: taxonomy, cross-modality, psychophysics and challenges

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality
Touch is one of the primary senses, and the receptors for touch sense are spread across the whole human body. Electrotactile displays provide tactile feedback to generate different sensations (such as tickling, tingling, itching, and pressure) in human ...
Rahul Kumar Ray   +3 more
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A Naturalistic Observation of Spontaneous Touches to the Body and Environment in the First 2 Months of Life

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Self-generated touches to the body or supporting surface are considered important contributors to the emergence of an early sense of the body and self in infancy. Both are critical for the formation of later goal-directed actions.
Abigail DiMercurio   +3 more
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Rapid Path Planning Algorithm for Percutaneous Rigid Needle Biopsy Based on Optical Illumination Principles

open access: yesSensors
Optimal needle trajectory selection is critical in biopsy procedures to minimize tissue damage and ensure diagnostic accuracy. Timely trajectory planning is essential, as it relies on preoperative CT imaging.
Jian Liu   +5 more
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Touch me, touch me not: senses, faith and performativity in early modernity:introduction [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Arts Journal, 2015
This issue brings together an exciting collection of essays that investigate the collaborative roles of senses in the genesis and experience of renaissance and baroque art.
Erin E. Benay , Lisa M. Rafanelli
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Digital finger: beyond phenomenological figures of touch

open access: yesJournal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2012
Mika Elo is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in visual culture at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto-ARTS), Helsinki. His research interests include theory of photographic media, philosophical media theory, and artistic
Mika Elo
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Exploring Preferences for a Digital Single‐Session Intervention for Adolescent Siblings of Youth With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Searching for a tactile target: the impact of set-size on the N140cc

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023
The time needed to find a visual target amongst distractors (search task) can increase as a function of the distractors’ number (set-size) in the search-array (inefficient search).
Elena Gherri   +5 more
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Good touch, bad touch [PDF]

open access: yesScience-Business eXchange, 2009
UCSF researchers have identified a new target for neuropathic pain—a glutamate transporter called VGLUT3. The key will be to selectively block VGLUT3 and avoid the off-target activity associated with broadly inhibiting glutamate signaling.
openaire   +1 more source

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