Touch is our primary non-verbal communication channel for conveying intimate emotions
and as such essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing. In our digital age, human …

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 …

Efforts to mitigate environmental threats are often inversely related to the magnitude of
casualty, human or otherwise. This “compassion fade” can be explained, in part, by …

In this paper, we investigate factors and issues related to human locomotion behavior and
proxemics in the presence of a real or virtual human in augmented reality (AR). First, we …

We investigate the effect of vibrotactile feedback delivered to one's feet in an immersive
virtual environment (IVE). In our study, participants observed a virtual environment where a …

Endowing socially interactive virtual agents with the social touch modality could improve
their emotional communication abilities and help them bond with human users. Touch is …

We examined the effects on users during collaboration with two types of virtual human (VH)
agents in object transportation in an immersive virtual environment or virtual reality (VR) …

In this paper, we present a decision model aimed at determining when a social touch by a
socially interactive agent (SIA) would be considered socially 'correct': both coherent …

A primary goal of augmented reality (AR) is to seamlessly embed virtual content into a real
environment. There are many factors that can affect the perceived physicality and co …

Due to the current popularity of the internet of things (IoT), the research topic for
communicating, connecting, and supporting people remotely through the internet is very …