Cansev M, Kindermann M, Bliek A, Beckerle P (2025)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2025
DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3565157
Improving user experience of haptic interfaces is among challenges of haptics research. Affective touch describes haptic information regarding the emotional and social aspects of touch. Still, affective dimensions of touch have not been considered as frequently as its discriminative properties in the design of haptic interfaces. To this end, we designed a haptic interface that can mediate affective touch through sequential indention on the human forearm via nine actuators and investigate in a two-phased repeated-measures study (FOR VERIFICATION{n=30}) if user experience can be improved via our interface. In the first phase, the hidden haptic interface stimulated the forearm of participants with different stimulation velocities synchronously and asynchronously inspired by the rubber hand illusion while the participants focused their vision on the experimenter touching an artificial arm to examine embodiment. The second phase focuses on the perceived pleasantness and continuity of computer-controlled stimuli with different stimulation velocities and forces. The results show that the stimuli with both velocities elicit embodiment, especially during synchronous conditions. Moreover, the results indicate that pleasantness is negatively correlated with the increasing stimulation velocity and/or force despite overall positive ratings under any conditions. These results provide insights into integrating haptic interfaces eliciting affective responses in human-robot interaction scenarios.
APA:
Cansev, M., Kindermann, M., Bliek, A., & Beckerle, P. (2025). Affective Touch via Haptic Interfaces: A Sequential Indentation Approach. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.3565157
MLA:
Cansev, Mehmet, et al. "Affective Touch via Haptic Interfaces: A Sequential Indentation Approach." IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2025).
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