Communion among people is easily identifiable. Close friends or relatives frequently touch each other and this physical contact helps identifying the type of relationship they have. We tested whether a friendly touch and benefits elicit the emotion of gratitude given the close link between gratitude and communal relations. In Study 1, we induced a communal mindset and manipulated friendly touch...

Tactile communication, or physical touch, promotes cooperation between people, communicates distinct emotions, soothes in times of stress, and is used to make inferences of warmth and trust. Based on this conceptual analysis, we predicted that in group competition, physical touch would predict increases in both individual and group performance. In an ethological study, we coded the touch behavi...

In order to improve the functionality of multi-touch devices, the possibility of using them as input devices for other computers needs to be reviewed. The idea is, to get rid of many different peripherals (e.g. keyboard, mouse, multi-touch pad) by using a single multi-touch display. Furthermore the display can be used as an additional monitor to show for example toolbars, which can be directly ...

User performance with a tabletop display was tested using touch-based and mouse-based interaction in a traditional pointing task. Dependent variables were throughput, error rate, and movement time. In a study with 12 participants, touch had a higher throughput with average of 5.53 bps compared to 3.83 bps for the mouse. Touch also had a lower movement time on average, with block means ranging f...

We propose a new touch screen interaction named as Touch Shadow, which is based on the contact area and the resultant shape of the fingertip when it touches the touch surface. The results of our feasibility evaluation established three degrees of freedom for the Touch Shadow interaction based on three fundamental parameters, the touch surface area, displacement of the touch centroid and directi...

Simulation models of expression recognition contend that to understand another's facial expressions, individuals map the perceived expression onto the same sensorimotor representations that are active during the experience of the perceived emotion. To investigate this view, the present study examines facial expression and identity recognition abilities in a rare group of participants who show f...

Touch between people is an integral part of human life. used to convey information, emotions, and other social cues. Still, everyday remote communication remains mainly auditive or audio-visual. The theme this article, interpersonal haptic communication, refers any system that supports mediation touch two more persons. We first present a scoping review the state art in including physiological p...

Extended Abstract—In recent years, touch screen technology has progressed rapidly and has increased in popularity with developers and consumers alike. Touch screen devices, in the forms of shopping kiosks, ATMs, tablet PCs, and smart phones, are now a very prevalent fact of everyday life. Ironically, in more technologically advanced applications such as telerobotics, touch screens are infrequen...

Touch is central to interpersonal interactions. Touch conveys specific emotions about the touch provider, but it is not clear whether this is a purely socially learned function or whether it has neurophysiological specificity. In two experiments with healthy participants (N = 76 and 61) and one neuropsychological single case study, we investigated whether a type of touch characterised by periph...