Social touch technology: A survey of haptic technology for social touch

G Huisman - IEEE transactions on haptics, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This survey provides an overview of work on haptic technology for social touch. Social touch
has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience. With the development of new …

[HTML][HTML] Interpersonal haptic communication: review and directions for the future

R Raisamo, K Salminen, J Rantala, A Farooq… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

The making of meaning through dyadic haptic affective touch

S Price, N Bianchi-Berthouze, C Jewitt… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite the importance of touch in human–human relations, research in affective tactile
practices is in its infancy, lacking in-depth understanding needed to inform the design of …

Toward enhanced teleoperation through embodiment

A Toet, IA Kuling, BN Krom… - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Telerobotics aims to transfer human manipulation skills and dexterity over an arbitrary
distance and at an arbitrary scale to a remote workplace. A telerobotic system that is …

A social haptic device to create continuous lateral motion using sequential normal indentation

H Culbertson, CM Nunez, A Israr, F Lau… - 2018 IEEE Haptics …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Touch is an essential method for communicating emotions between individuals. Humans
use a variety of different gestures to convey these emotions, including squeezes, pats, and …

ThermoCaress: A wearable haptic device with illusory moving thermal stimulation

Y Liu, S Nishikawa, YA Seong, R Niiyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We propose ThermoCaress, a haptic device to create a stroking sensation on the forearm
using pressure force and present thermal feedback simultaneously. In our method, based on …

Integrating tactile feedback technologies into home-based telerehabilitation: opportunities and challenges in light of COVID-19 pandemic

S Handelzalts, G Ballardini, C Avraham… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for advancing the development and
implementation of novel means for home-based telerehabilitation in order to enable remote …

The rubber hand illusion evaluated using different stimulation modalities

P Svensson, N Malešević, U Wijk, A Björkman… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tactile feedback plays a vital role in inducing ownership and improving motor control of
prosthetic hands. However, commercially available prosthetic hands typically do not provide …

Affective Touch as Immediate and Passive Wearable Intervention

Y Zhao, Y Tao, G Le, R Maki, A Adams… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We investigated affective touch as a new pathway to passively mitigate in-the-moment
anxiety. While existing mobile interventions offer great promises for health and well-being …

Defining pleasant touch stimuli: a systematic review and meta-analysis

P Taneja, H Olausson, M Trulsson, P Svensson… - Psychological …, 2021 - Springer
Pleasantness is generally overlooked when investigating tactile functions. Addition of a
pleasant stimulus could allow for a more complete characterisation of somatosensory …