Editorial: Social touch

Pediatric Neurology Editorial Touch MEdical MEdia

Touch MEdical MEdia 1 It is no small task to choose from among the many accomplishments and advances in child neurology that epitomize the year’s achievements. Making choices means making inclusions and omissions others would not have made. Choices notwithstanding, the small sampling presented at the 2015 American Academy of Neurology meeting in Washington, DC, US, serves to reflect the breadth...

Editorial: Hand and Touch: Evolution, Ability, and Preference

Self Touch to Touch Others: Designing the Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). TEI 2013, February 10-13, 2013, Barcelona, Spain ACM Abstract In this paper we present the concept and initial design stages of the TaSST (Tactile Sleeve for Social Touch). The TaSST consists of a soft pressure-sensitive input layer, and an output layer containing vibration motors. A touch to ones own sleeve is felt as a vibration on the sleeve of anoth...

Social and Behavioral Science Editorial

reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page Editorial The resilience of the elderly provides an opportunity for many to learn about this cohort of adults, and to do what is necessary to ensure that we understand all that is involved in the aging process. Becoming older (aging) is inev...

Social Touch in Human–Computer Interaction

Touch is our primary non-verbal communication channel for conveying intimate emotions and as such essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing. In our digital age, human social interaction is often mediated. However, even though there is increasing evidence that mediated touch affords affective communication, current communication systems (such as videoconferencing) still do not support c...