Design of a wearable research tool for warm mediated social touches
conference paper
Social touches are essential in interpersonal communication, for instance to show affect. Despite this importance, mediated interpersonal communication oftentimes lacks the possibility to touch. A human touch is a complex composition of several physical qualities and parameters, but different haptic technologies allow us to isolate such parameters and to investigate their opportunities and limitations for affective communication devices. In our research, we focus on the role that temperature may play in affective mediated communication. In the current paper, we describe the design of a wearable 'research tool' that will facilitate systematic research on the possibilities of temperature in affective communication. We present use cases, and define a list of requirements accordingly. Based on a requirement fulfillment analysis, we conclude that our research tool can be of value for research on new forms of affective mediated communication. © 2015 IEEE.
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TNO Identifier
535455
ISBN
9781479999538
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Article nr.
7344694
Source title
2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2015
Pages
976-981
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