Perceptions of visual and multimodal symbolic mediated social touch: Role of technology modality, relationship, and task emotional salience

• Published in: International journal of human-computer studies Vol. 159; p. 102757
• Main Authors: Yarosh, Svetlana, Wang, Xizi, Yao, Yuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Computer-Mediated Communication; Haptic Interaction; Mediated-Social Touch; Projector-Camera Systems; Shape Memory Alloys; Social Disfordance; Social Presence; Projector-Camera Systems; Mediated-Social Touch; Haptic Interaction; Computer-Mediated Communication; Shape Memory Alloys; Social Presence; Social Disfordance

•We investigated how people perceive and respond to affective mediated social touch given the relationship between participants (strangers vs. known partners), the task carried out (high vs. low emotional salience tasks), and the type of mediated communication technology used (videochat vs. duplexed...