Mediated Social Touching: Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators

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Mediated Social Touching : Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators. / Maunsbach, Martin; Hornbæk, Kasper; Seifi, Hasti.

2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). IEEE, 2023. s. 93-100.

Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt

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Maunsbach, M, Hornbæk, K & Seifi, H 2023, Mediated Social Touching: Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators. i 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). IEEE, s. 93-100, 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Delft, Holland, 10/07/2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224506

APA

Maunsbach, M., Hornbæk, K., & Seifi, H. (2023). Mediated Social Touching: Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators. I 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (s. 93-100). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224506

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Maunsbach M, Hornbæk K, Seifi H. Mediated Social Touching: Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators. I 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). IEEE. 2023. s. 93-100 https://doi.org/10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224506

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Maunsbach, Martin ; Hornbæk, Kasper ; Seifi, Hasti. / Mediated Social Touching : Haptic Feedback Affects Social Experience of Touch Initiators. 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC). IEEE, 2023. s. 93-100

Bibtex

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abstract = "Mediated social touch enables us to share hugs, handshakes, and caresses at a distance. Past work has focused on the experience of being touched by a remote person, but the touch initiator{\textquoteright}s experience is underexplored. We ask whether a variation in haptic feedback can influence the touch initiator{\textquoteright}s social experience of the interaction. In a user study participants stroked a remote person{\textquoteright}s hand in virtual reality while feeling no haptic feedback, ultrasonic stimulation, or passive feedback from a silicone hand. In each condition, they rated the pleasantness of the interaction, the friendliness of the remote person, and their sense of co-presence. We also captured the velocity of their stroking and asked for reflections on the interaction and mediated social touch as a whole. The results show significant effects of haptic feedback on co-presence, pleasantness, and stroking velocity. The qualitative responses suggest that these results are due to the familiarity of the solid silicone hand, and the participants{\textquoteright} assumption that when they felt feedback, the remote person felt similar feedback.",
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