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Touch-ting: Sharing Touches Remotely Using Tangible Computing

Published: 25 February 2022 Publication History

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As physical distances between people have increased due to the pandemic, some of the most popular and widespread ways to ‘connect’ people remotely, namely audio/video calling and texting, are able to satisfy the auditory and visual sensories but fall short on a very crucial front- being able to communicate the intimate feeling of touch. In this paper we looked at some of the explorations done in the field of touch and haptics. We propose an affective interaction method called ”Touch-ting” that shares the feeling of touch remotely. To achieve this, we designed and prototyped a device which replicates the feeling of a finger sliding across the skin.

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IndiaHCI '21: Proceedings of the 12th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
November 2021
155 pages
ISBN:9781450396073
DOI:10.1145/3506469
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  1. Affective Interaction
  2. Haptics
  3. Remote Touch
  4. Tactile Feedback

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India HCI 2021
India HCI 2021: India HCI 2021
November 19 - 21, 2021
Virtual Event, India

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