In Contact: Pinching, Squeezing and Twisting for Mediated Social Touch

Melanie F Simons; Alice Haynes; Yan Gao; Yihua Zhu; Jonathan M Rossiter

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In Contact: Pinching, Squeezing and Twisting for Mediated Social Touch

Melanie F Simons, Alice Haynes, Yan Gao, Yihua Zhu, Jonathan M Rossiter

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Mediated social touch has the potential to enhance our interactions with machines and with each other. We present three wearable tactile devices that generate affective haptic sensations via three localised skin stretching modalities; pinching, squeezing, and twisting. The Pinch device is adhered to the skin of the forearm, generating pinching sensations in three locations. The Squeeze and Twist devices are wristbands that elicit squeezing and twisting sensations on the skin of the wrist. All of these devices are powered by shape memory alloy actuators, enabling them to be quiet, lightweight and discreet wearable interfaces, unlike their vibrotactile or servo-motor driven counterparts.

We investigate the potential for these devices to be used in mediated social touch interactions by conducting preliminary psychometric tests measuring affective response. The Pinch device and Squeeze wristband were found to
simulate positive affective touch sensations, particularly in comparison to vibrotactile stimuli.

Original language	English
Article number	LBW055
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	CHI '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382798
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2020

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tactile devices and interfaces
wearables
mediated social touch

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Haynes, A. (Author), Rossiter, J. (Supervisor) & Kent, C. (Supervisor), 25 Jan 2022
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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