HaptiHug: A Novel Haptic Display for Communication of Hug over a Distance

Tsetserukou, Dzmitry

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_49

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“…Also, a wide range of systems have been developed for the mediated representation of specific touch events between dyads such as kisses (Saadatian et al 2014), hugs (Mueller et al 2005;Cha et al 2008;Teh et al 2008;Gooch and Watts 2010;Tsetserukou 2010), pokes (Park et al 2011), handholding (Gooch and Watts 2012;Toet et al 2013), handshakes ), strokes on the hand (Eichhorn et al 2008), arm (Huisman et al 2013) and cheek , pinches, tickles (Furukawa et al 2012), pats (Bonanni et al 2006), squeezes (Rantala et al 2013), thermal signals (Gooch and Watts 2010;Suhonen et al 2012a,b), massages (Chung et al 2009), and intimate sexual touches (Solon 2015).…”

Section: Remote Communication Between Partnersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Touch in Humanâ€“Computer Interaction

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Toet²

2015

Front. Digit. Humanit.

143

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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 social interaction is often mediated. However, even though there is increasing evidence that mediated touch affords affective communication, current communication systems (such as videoconferencing) still do not support communication through the sense of touch. As a result, mediated communication does not provide the intense affective experience of co-located communication. The need for ICT mediated or generated touch as an intuitive way of social communication is even further emphasized by the growing interest in the use of touch-enabled agents and robots for healthcare, teaching, and telepresence applications. Here, we review the important role of social touch in our daily life and the available evidence that affective touch can be mediated reliably between humans and between humans and digital agents. We base our observations on evidence from psychology, computer science, sociology, and neuroscience with focus on the first two. Our review shows that mediated affective touch can modulate physiological responses, increase trust and affection, help to establish bonds between humans and avatars or robots, and initiate pro-social behavior. We argue that ICT mediated or generated social touch can (a) intensify the perceived social presence of remote communication partners and (b) enable computer systems to more effectively convey affective information. However, this research field on the crossroads of ICT and psychology is still embryonic and we identify several topics that can help to mature the field in the following areas: establishing an overarching theoretical framework, employing better research methodologies, developing basic social touch building blocks, and solving specific ICT challenges.

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Section: Remote Communication Between Partnersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Touch in Humanâ€“Computer Interaction

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Toet²

2015

Front. Digit. Humanit.

143

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“…Explorations in this direction have been made as well, in an area termed mediated social touch [Haans and IJsselsteijn 2006]. Such interactions require haptic garments or jackets that provide force or tactile feedback beyond the user's hands [Tsetserukou 2010;Rahman et al 2010]. A suite of such devices has even been integrated with Linden Lab's open-source Second Life viewer to facilitate multimodal, affective, nonverbal communication among avatars in that virtual world ].…”

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confidence: 98%

3D Virtual worlds and the metaverse

2013

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Moving from a set of independent virtual worlds to an integrated network of 3D virtual worlds or Metaverse rests on progress in four areas: immersive realism, ubiquity of access and identity, interoperability, and scalability. For each area, the current status and needed developments in order to achieve a functional Metaverse are described. Factors that support the formation of a viable Metaverse, such as institutional and popular interest and ongoing improvements in hardware performance, and factors that constrain the achievement of this goal, including limits in computational methods and unrealized collaboration among virtual world stakeholders and developers, are also considered.

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“…Mueller et al invented a coat that transmitted the feeling of being hugged remotely [2]. Many media transmit the feeling of being hugged and resemble counseling from remote places [3], [4], [5], [6]. These are used when lovers cannot meet and address loneliness.…”

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Hugvie: A medium that fosters love

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We introduce a communication medium that encourages users to fall in love with their counterparts. Hugvie, the huggable tele-presence medium, enables users to feel like hugging their counterparts while chatting. In this paper, we report that when a participant talks to his communication partner during their first encounter while hugging Hugvie, he mistakenly feels as if they are establishing a good relationship and that he is being loved rather than just being liked.

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HaptiHug: A Novel Haptic Display for Communication of Hug over a Distance

Cited by 76 publications

References 2 publications

Social Touch in Humanâ€“Computer Interaction

Social Touch in Humanâ€“Computer Interaction

3D Virtual worlds and the metaverse

Hugvie: A medium that fosters love

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