Social touch in virtual reality

Gallace, Alberto; Girondini, Matteo

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.11.006

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“…Previous research has investigated the in uence that somatosensory feedback can have on the immersion of a virtual environment or the experience of a virtual body as one's own. For example, researchers have explored the use of vibrotactile and force feedback actuators, as well air-or electricitybased haptic devices in an attempt to recreate or simulate the sensation of social touch within a digital context (Gallace and Girondini 2022). While some studies support the idea that integrating these devices in VR can evoke sensations akin to those experienced in real-life scenarios involving physical touch, others yield inconclusive results, overall lacking su cient evidence regarding the neurophysiological underpinnings (Gallace and Girondini 2022).…”

Section: In a Virtual World: Different Norms And Sensory Experiencesmentioning

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Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, perceived pleasantness, and arousal modulation

Sun,

Banakou,

Świdrak

et al. 2024

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When engaging in physical contact, our emotional response hinges not only on the nuanced sensory details and the receptive properties of the skin but also on contextual cues related to the situation and interpersonal dynamics. The consensus is that the nature of the affective interactive experience in social touch is shaped by a combination of ascending, C-tactile (CT) afferents mediated somatosensory information, and modulatory, top-down information. The question we pose here is whether, in the absence of somatosensory input, multisensory cues alone can suffice to create a genuinely pleasant, authentic, and engaging experience in virtual reality. The study aims to explore how affective touch is perceived in immersive virtual environments, considering varied social norms in neutral settings or settings like a physiotherapy room where the touch provider is a healthcare professional. We conducted an experiment with 58 male and female healthy adults, where we employed a within-group counterbalanced design featuring two factors: (a) visuo-tactile affective touch, and (b) visual-only affective touch. Findings, drawn from questionnaires and collected physiological data, shed light on how contextual factors influence implicit engagement, self-reported embodiment, co-presence, as well as the perceived realism and pleasantness of the touch experience. Our findings, in line with the literature, indicate that to experience the advantages of touch in immersive virtual worlds, it is essential to incorporate haptic feedback, as depending solely on visual input may not be adequate for fully realizing the optimal benefits of interpersonal touch. Furthermore, in contradiction with our hypothesis, a less ambiguous context (specifically, the physiotherapy room and touch from a physiotherapist) is not linked to heightened touch pleasantness.

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Section: In a Virtual World: Different Norms And Sensory Experiencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, perceived pleasantness, and arousal modulation

Sun,

Banakou,

Świdrak

et al. 2024

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“…In this section, we briefly review the techniques and systems that are closely related to our work. For comprehensive surveys of the advances in related fields, readers are referred to [6,8,18,60].…”

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“…Oh et al [52] presented avatar animation techniques to support handshaking between remote users in a shared VR environment. Gallace et al [18] presented a survey of the devices and studies of social touch in VR applications. Different from these methods that only focus on emulating tactile feedback of hand touch between remote users, our work aims to provide hand touch with consistent visual and haptic experience in immersive 3D video communication.…”

Section: Social Touch In Vr and Armentioning

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RemoteTouch: Enhancing Immersive 3D Video Communication with Hand Touch

Zhang¹,

Li²,

Xu³

et al. 2023

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“…This computer-mediated communication (CMC) phenomenon leads to a significant communication distance (Quan-Haase & Wellman, 2004;Huang & Chen, 2022), making it difficult for firms to establish a genuine connection (Huang & Chen, 2022) and subsequently leading to a perceived risk in cooperation (Ye et al, 2022). This can negatively impact firms' rationality and further diminish their intention to build trust (Gallace & Girondini, 2022;Guirdham, 2017), despite the potential resolution of the risk of information and knowledge leakage.…”

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“…Emotions have the power to influence others' behavior (Lu & Kim, 2016), thus suppressing concerns about cooperation and effectively dealing with perceived risks. This, in turn, encourages firms to adopt a rational attitude towards trust building (Gallace & Girondini, 2022; Windzio & Bicer, 2013).…”

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Enhancing supply chain resilience and realizing green sustainable development through the virtual environment of the metaverse

Chen¹,

Huang

2023

Sustainable Development

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This study explores how the virtual environment of metaverse generates benefits to drive firms' rational choice in mutual trust building, and further ensures the green knowledge sharing intention maintaining for continuous enhancing supply chain resilience and realizing green performance, further promoting environmentally sustainable development. A conceptual framework is formulated by incorporating the natural resource‐based view, knowledge‐based view, and rational choice theory. This framework is supported and validated using PLS‐SEM. The findings of the analysis reveal that the virtual environment of the metaverse can create a sense of physical proximity, effectively managing communication distance and influencing firms' emotional attitude during interactions. Furthermore, the metaverse facilitates sensory feedback, thereby strengthening emotional expression. Based on these observations, supply chain firms are likely to adopt rational thinking and demonstrate rational behavior, making choices that foster mutual trust. As trust is established, it promotes the sharing of green knowledge, strengthens supply chain resilience, facilitates the achievement of environmentally friendly performance in the green supply chain, and contributes to the sustainable development of the environment. This study makes valuable contributions to the existing literature concerning the integration of green supply chain and the metaverse.

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Social touch in virtual reality

Cited by 32 publications

References 44 publications

Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, perceived pleasantness, and arousal modulation

Multisensory experiences of affective touch in virtual reality enhance engagement, body ownership, perceived pleasantness, and arousal modulation

RemoteTouch: Enhancing Immersive 3D Video Communication with Hand Touch

Enhancing supply chain resilience and realizing green sustainable development through the virtual environment of the metaverse

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