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 …

A wealth of evidence suggests that love, closeness, and intimacy---in short relatedness---are
important for people's psychological well-being. Nowadays, however, couples are often …

Tangible user interfaces (TUIs) provide physical form to digital information and computation,
facilitating the direct manipulation of bits. Our goal in TUI development is to empower …

This thesis investigates the design of Tactons: structured vibrotactile messages for
presenting multidimensional information non-visually. Tactons (tactile icons) are the tactile …

In this paper, we review research and applications in the area of mediated or remote social
touch. Whereas current communication media rely predominately on vision and hearing …

Since past studies on haptic and visual communication have tended to be isolated from
each other, it has remained unclear whether a touch channel can still enrich mediated …

This article examines the phenomenon of Virtual Interpersonal Touch (VIT), people touching
one another via force-feedback haptic devices. As collaborative virtual environments …

The increasing number of people playing games on touch-screen mobile phones raises the
question of whether touch behaviors reflect players' emotional states. This prospect would …

Tactation is the sensation perceived by the sense of touch, and is based on the skin's
receptors. Touch is a common medium used by the general population and the sensory …

In this paper we present a system for providing tactile feedback for stylus-based touch-
screen displays. The Haptic Pen is a simple low-cost device that provides individualized …