Avatars and social robots offer new opportunities for communication and raise questions
about how trust is built and maintained in hybrid social interactions. We wonder what kind of …

Touch between people is an integral part of human life. Touch is used to convey information,
emotions, and other social cues. Still, everyday remote communication remains mainly …

Emerging research has demonstrated the viability of emotional communication through
haptic technology inspired by interpersonal touch. However, the meaning-making of artificial …

Given the importance of affective touch in human interactions, technology designers are
increasingly attempting to bring this modality to the core of interactive technology. Advances …

The sense of touch is central to fashion and luxury, because dress-garments and
accessories-is experienced with and on the body. But on e-commerce websites, dress is …

The rapid development of touchless systems has introduced many innovations in social
interaction scenarios in recent years. People now can interact with touchless systems in …

Touch is valued for supporting emotional bonds. How can people access its warmth and
nuance remotely, when tech-mediated proxies are so different from direct touch? We …

Touching a friend to comfort or be comforted is a common prosocial behaviour, firmly based
in mutual trust. Emphasising the interactive nature of trust and touch, we suggest that …

Dress is an embodied, physical experience which the touch-deprived sensory affordances of
today's screen technologies can only simulate. However, advances in haptic and virtual …

In both remote and physical work environments, it is commonplace for help-seeking
messages to be rejected by other colleagues. This paper investigates how signifying co …