Uncovering Human-to-Human Physical Interactions that Underlie Emotional and Affective Touch Communication

Hauser, Steven C.; McIntyre, Sarah; Israr, Ali; Olausson, Håkan; Gerling, Gregory J.

doi:10.1109/whc.2019.8816169

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“…In experiment 4, the physical attributes of standardized touch gestures from two expert senders were measured and characterized using a motion tracking system (Hauser et al, 2019).…”

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The language of social touch is intuitive and quantifiable

McIntyre¹,

Hauser²,

Kusztor³

et al. 2021

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Touch is a powerful communication tool, but we have a limited understanding of the role played by particular physical features of interpersonal touch communication. In this study, adults living in Sweden performed a task in which messages (attention, love, happiness, calming, sadness and gratitude) were conveyed by a sender touching the forearm of a receiver, who interpreted the messages. Two experiments (n=32, n=20) showed that within close relationships, receivers could identify the intuitive touch expressions of the senders, and we characterized the physical features of the touches associated with successful communication. Facial expressions measured with EMG varied by message, but were uncorrelated with communication performance. We developed standardized touch expressions and quantified the physical features with 3D hand-tracking. In two further experiments (n=20, n=16), these were conveyed by trained senders and were readily understood by naïve strangers. Thus, the possibility emerges of a standardized, intuitively understood language of social touch.

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“…In experiment 4, the physical attributes of standardized touch gestures from two expert senders were measured and characterized using a motion tracking system (Hauser et al, 2019).…”

Section: Hand-trackingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The language of social touch is intuitive and quantifiable

McIntyre¹,

Hauser²,

Kusztor³

et al. 2021

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“…Trust, security, and emotional intimacy are intangible constructs that can be hard to see. Consensual and respectful physical touch often symbolize these emotions (e.g., Field, 2010; Hauser et al, 2019; Hertenstein et al, 2006; van Anders et al, 2013), so physical affection may be able to convey messages of love and devotion in a concrete way adolescents can easily see and feel. In this way, physical expressions of affection can augment emotional disclosure as another conduit through which availability, responsiveness, and engagement are expressed; and adolescents may find it valuable to receive messages of trust, devotion, and stability through both vocal and physical means.…”

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Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model

Jorgensen‐Wells

James

Holmes

2021

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Romantic relationships provide a meaningful context from which individuals can develop attachment security and find fulfillment for their emotional and physical attachment needs. The process for developing attachment security in adolescent romantic relationships is not well documented. A new model is proposed outlining the context and processes wherein adolescent romantic attachment security can develop. The contextual role of one's family of origin, cognitive development, and romantic competency is noted. Within this context, it is hypothesized that the relational processes of physical affection and emotional disclosure interact as direct influences on the development of attachment security. These facets of the conceptual model are outlined in light of the current literature on both attachment and adolescent romantic relationships. It is concluded that adolescent romantic attachment warrants further study, as adolescent romantic relationships have strong implications for future relationships.

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“…Emotions associated to attachment (e.g., gratitude, sadness) were characterized by longer tactile contact than rejective ones (e.g., anger, disgust) in a HRI study [2]. Hauser et al [12] shows that the total contact area, touch duration and hand velocity can be used to differentiate portrayed emotions during the hand-forearm contact. We took inspiration from these works realized in the context of HHI and HRI to design a set of features for HOI.…”

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Multimodal Emotion Recognition of Hand-Object Interaction

Niewiadomski

Sciutti

2021

26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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In this paper, we investigate whether information related to touches and rotations impressed to an object can be effectively used to classify the emotion of the agent manipulating it. We specifically focus on sequences of basic actions (e.g., grasping, rotating), which are constituents of daily interactions. We use the iCube, a 5 cm cube covered with tactile sensors and embedded with an accelometer, to collect a new dataset including 11 persons performing action sequences associated with 4 emotions: anger, sadness, excitement and gratitude. Next, we propose 17 high-level hand-crafted features based on the tactile and kinematics data derived from the iCube. Twelve of these features vary significantly as a function of the emotional context in which the action sequence was performed. In particular, a larger surface of the object is engaged in physical contact for anger and excitement, than for sadness. Furthermore, the average duration of interactions labeled as sad, is longer than for the remaining 3 emotions. More rotations are performed for anger and excitement than for sadness and gratitude. The accuracy of a classification experiment in the case of four emotions reaches 0.75. This result shows that the emotion recognition during handobject interactions is possible and it may foster development of new intelligent user interfaces. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction devices.

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Uncovering Human-to-Human Physical Interactions that Underlie Emotional and Affective Touch Communication

Cited by 49 publications

References 20 publications

The language of social touch is intuitive and quantifiable

The language of social touch is intuitive and quantifiable

Attachment Development in Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Conceptual Model

Multimodal Emotion Recognition of Hand-Object Interaction

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