Affective haptics in emotional communication

Mapping Abstract Visual Feedback to a Dimensional Model of Emotion

“…Specifically, we got measures of the perceived valence and arousal of the conveyed emotion to be able to compare to other studies that have measured emotional content in abstract vibrotactile [20,[25][26][27]35] and thermal [21,22,34] signals. With these measures we plotted all the average valencearousal values within a dimensional model of affect [19], to illustrate how all the different visual designs relate to common discrete emotions.…”

“…Each channel contributes important, or even necessary, signals. Research in HCI has attempted to use visual [30] and haptic/tactile feedback [20,[25][26][27]35] to convey the emotional state of another but, in general, these channels have been studied individually, with few multimodal approaches. Individual channels currently do not seem capable of conveying a wide range of emotions by themselves.…”

How Does It Feel Like? An Exploratory Study of a Prototype System to Convey Emotion through Haptic Wearable Devices

“…Work on vibrotactile systems has also been done over the past years, for virtual contact and information display [11]; and to enhance non-verbal communication over the internet by adding a haptic channel to a foot device [16]; as well as in affective haptics in emotional communication [17]- [18]. However, none of these studies used haptic feedback to enhance the movie-watching experience or attempted to use touch as alternative sense to convey emotions.…”

Extending the reach of social touch through haptic technology

“…T, V HaptiTickler [498] Playful This last aspect deserves some further explanation. Two reseachers, Jones and Yarbrough [272], conducted a seminal study in which participants reported on the social touches they received and applied, in what sort of situations these touches occurred, and what sort of meaning, if any, they ascribed to the touches (see also Section 4.4).…”