Haptic technology involves the use of electrical or mechanical means to stimulate afferent
nerves or mechanoreceptors in the skin as the basis for creating sensations of physical …

Surprisingly little scientific research has been conducted on the topic of interpersonal touch
over the years, despite the importance of touch in our everyday social interactions from birth …

People are increasingly purchasing (eg, food, clothes) and consuming (eg, movies, courses)
online where, traditionally, the sensory interaction has mostly been limited to visual, and to a …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

In this work we describe a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to accurately predict the
scene illumination. Taking image patches as input, the CNN works in the spatial domain …

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 …

This survey provides an overview of work on haptic technology for social touch. Social touch
has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience. With the development of new …

Social touch interactions can, depending on the type and strength of the dyadic social
relationship, elicit a plethora of physiological, emotional, and behavioral responses; both …

Touch between people is an integral part of human life. Touch is used to convey information,
emotions, and other social cues. Still, everyday remote communication remains mainly …

Perception in the real world is inherently multisensory, often involving visual, auditory,
tactile, olfactory, gustatory, and, on occasion, nociceptive (ie, painful) stimulation. In fact, the …