Contact behaviours such as touch, have been shown to be influential channels of nonverbal communication between mothers and infants. While existing research has examined the communicative roles of maternal or infant touch in isolation, mutual touch, whereby touching behaviours occur simultaneously between mothers and their infants, has yet to be examined. The present study was designed to inves...

BACKGROUND Before caesarean section is performed under regional anaesthesia the block should be assessed, preferably using a touch stimulus. What constitutes a touch stimulus remains unclear. The aim of this study was to compare a Neuropen monofilament with ethyl chloride in the assessment of touch. METHODS Forty women undergoing elective caesarean section received combined spinal-epidural an...

The social and sensory aspects of touch are critical for human communication, yet the challenges haptic technology development a focus on technological means that digital communication often fails to realise potential promise touch. Manifesto Digital Social Touch in Crisis responds this through call action rethink reimagine It offers 10 provocative statements as resource how designers, develope...

A physician's armamentarium includes the presence of the tool of touch which is used not only to diagnose and to heal, but also to reassure patients that they are safe and well cared for in the hands of the physician. The use of touch in the practice of psychology, however, is relatively proscribed. In this essay, I examine how we, as psychologists, can best “hold” our clients without the use o...

conclusion vttq can sensitively detect the elasticity changes in patients with ckd, and it can effectively predict renal insufficiency. this technology provides a valuable tool for the assessment of ckd. patients and methods sixty-five patients with ckd and seventy healthy participants were included in this study. a total of 270 kidneys were examined by vttq. the kidney elasticity was expressed...

The perception of touch is complex and there has been a lack of ways to describe the full tactile experience quantitatively. Guest et al. (2011) developed a Touch Perception Task (TPT) in order to capture such experiences, and here we used the TPT to examine differences in sensory and emotional aspects of touch at different skin sites. We compared touch on three skin sites: the hairy arm and ch...

Introduction Today, more and more different fields are adopting touch screens or touch panels for applications with human/machinery or human/computer interfaces. Figure 1 is a block diagram of a touch-screen system where the touch screen sensor lies on top of the system’s display, in this case an LCD panel. The touch-screen controller in Figure 1 does not need any calibration by itself. However...