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 …

Touch plays a prominent role in communicating emotions and intensifying interpersonal
communication. Affective haptics is an emerging field, which focuses on the analysis …

The use of the senses of vision and audition as interactive means has dominated the field of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) for decades, even though nature has provided us with …

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 a powerful vehicle for communication between humans. The way we touch (how)
embraces and mediates certain emotions such as anger, joy, fear, or love. While this …

Despite the importance of touch in human–human relations, research in affective tactile
practices is in its infancy, lacking in-depth understanding needed to inform the design of …

This qualitative exploratory research paper presents a Manifesto for Digital Social Touch in
Crisis-a provocative call to action to designers, developers and researchers to rethink and …

Emerging research has demonstrated the viability of emotional communication through
haptic technology inspired by interpersonal touch. However, the meaning-making of artificial …

The tactile experience of fabric is not only a sensory experience but also an affective one.
Our choice of fabric products, like clothing, is often based on how they feel. Effectively …

Affective touch plays an important role in human-robot interaction. However, it is challenging
for robots to perceive various natural human tactile gestures accurately, and feedback …