Reaching with feeling

Viewing and feeling touch modulates hand position for reaching.

Action requires knowledge of our body location in space. Here we asked if interactions with the external world prior to a reaching action influence how visual location information is used. We investigated if the temporal synchrony between viewing and feeling touch modulates the integration of visual and proprioceptive body location information for action. We manipulated the synchrony between vi...

Norms with Feeling

There is a large tradition of work in moral psychology that explores the capacity for moral judgment by focusing on the basic capacity to distinguish moral violations (e.g., hitting another person) from conventional violations (e.g., playing with your food). However, only recently have there been attempts to characterize the cognitive mechanisms underlying moral judgment (e.g., Blair 1995, Gold...

Once More With Feeling

Communicating with Feeling

Communication between users in shared editors takes place in a deprived environment – distributed users find it difficult to communicate. While many solutions to the problems this causes have been suggested this paper presents a novel one. It describes one possible use of haptics as a channel for communication between users. User’s telepointers are considered as haptic avatars and interactions ...

Reaching a Goal with

We study two problems related to planar motion planning for robots with imperfect control, where, if the robot starts a linear movement in a certain commanded direction, we only know that its actual movement will be connned in a cone of angle centered around the speciied direction. First, we consider a single goal region, namely the \region at innnity", and a set of polygonal obstacles, modeled...