Touch technology in affective human–, robot–, and virtual–human interactions: A survey

T Olugbade, L He, P Maiolino, D Heylen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the importance of affective touch in human interactions, technology designers are
increasingly attempting to bring this modality to the core of interactive technology. Advances …

Let us talk about something: The evolution of e-WOM from the past to the future

M Akbari, P Foroudi, RZ Fashami… - Journal of Business …, 2022 - Elsevier
Because e-WOM is one of the useful digital marketing elements for any organization, a
better understanding of its process will help individuals take more advantage of this concept …

Something personal from the metaverse: goals, topics, and contextual factors of self-disclosure in commercial social VR

P Sykownik, D Maloney, G Freeman… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Current Social VR literature provides limited insight on one of the most critical behaviors for
developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships: self-disclosure. Therefore, we …

The making of meaning through dyadic haptic affective touch

S Price, N Bianchi-Berthouze, C Jewitt… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Social media use, perceived social support, and well-being: Evidence from two waves of surveys peri-and post-COVID-19 lockdown

Z Yue, R Zhang, J Xiao - Journal of Social and Personal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Numerous studies have suggested that active social media use can promote well-being by
enhancing perceived social support. However, the relationship between social media use …

VibEmoji: Exploring user-authoring multi-modal emoticons in social communication

P An, Z Zhou, Q Liu, Y Yin, L Du, DY Huang… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Emoticons are indispensable in online communications. With users' growing needs for more
customized and expressive emoticons, recent messaging applications begin to support …

EmoWear: Exploring Emotional Teasers for Voice Message Interaction on Smartwatches

P An, JS Zhu, Z Zhang, Y Yin, Q Ma, C Yan… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Voice messages, by nature, prevent users from gauging the emotional tone without fully
diving into the audio content. This hinders the shared emotional experience at the pre …

Enhancing social messaging with mediated social touch

Q Wei, J Hu, M Li - International Journal of Human–Computer …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mediated social touch (MST) is a popular way to communicate emotion and connect people
in mobile communication. This article applies MST gestures with vibrotactile stimuli in two …

How online social support enhances individual resilience in the public health crisis: Testing a dual-process serial mediation model

Z He, M Chen - Computers in Human Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Under the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, our paper attempts to advance a dual-
process model from online social support to individual resilience via diverse social capital …

Mediated Social Touch With Mobile Devices: A Review of Designs and Evaluations

Q Wei, M Li, J Hu - IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background: Mediated social touch has been widely studied for remote affective
communication in the field of human-computer interaction. Goal: We conducted this literature …