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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TY - GEN
T1 - Mediated Social Touching
T2 - 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC)
AU - Maunsbach, Martin
AU - Hornbæk, Kasper
AU - Seifi, Hasti
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - 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’s experience is underexplored. We ask whether a variation in haptic feedback can influence the touch initiator’s social experience of the interaction. In a user study participants stroked a remote person’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’ assumption that when they felt feedback, the remote person felt similar feedback.
AB - 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’s experience is underexplored. We ask whether a variation in haptic feedback can influence the touch initiator’s social experience of the interaction. In a user study participants stroked a remote person’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’ assumption that when they felt feedback, the remote person felt similar feedback.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Virtual Reality
KW - Haptic interfaces
KW - Social Touch
U2 - 10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224506
DO - 10.1109/WHC56415.2023.10224506
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 93
EP - 100
BT - 2023 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC)
PB - IEEE
Y2 - 10 July 2023 through 13 July 2023
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