Background and objectives Virtual reality (VR) interventions are becoming more prevalent in
treating fear of flying (FoF). Since multisensory stimulation can enhance the sense of …

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 …

Emotion plays a key role in the emerging wave of immersive, multi-sensory audience news
engagement experiences. Since emotions can be triggered by somatosensory feedback, in …

Vibratory stimuli to viewers' upper bodies enhance emotional experiences during audio-
visual content. Studies have investigated the effects of stimulation conditions, such as …

Background: Mediated social touch has been widely studied for remote affective
communication in the field of human-computer interaction. Goal: We conducted this literature …

The global pandemic exposed serious drawbacks in relying on communication modalities in
which social touch, however important, is absent. Considerable research has explored …

This paper presents a survey informing a user-first approach to designing calming affective
haptic stimuli by eliciting user preferences in different social scenarios. Prior affective haptics …

Social anxiety is a prevalent mental health concern that impacts quality of life and makes
social spaces less accessible. We conducted two studies with socially anxious participants …

This paper investigates how presenting emotionally resonant vibrotactile stimuli at cool,
neutral and warm temperature levels impacts mean ratings for emotional resonance and …

Engineering high-fidelity haptic actuators is challenging due to the impressive tactile
sensing characteristics of human skin, which possesses a wide frequency bandwidth, high …