Tactile aesthetics: Textures that we like or hate to touch

Why do we love to hate ourselves?

Dhaliwal’s comment on Zwaan et al nicely refutes what has been called ‘the hypothesis of special cause’—the notion that when things turn out wrong, the cognitive processes leading to that outcome must have been fundamentally different (ie, error-prone) from when they turn out right. Dhaliwal’s argument recapitulates thinking that is over 100 years old; one of the early contributors to psycholog...

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...

Semantically Layered Structure of Tactile Textures

This study constructed a multi-layered semantic structure of adjective pairs that are used to express the tactile properties of materials. We analyzed the causalities between adjectives using the DEMATEL method, involving twenty-nine adjective pairs and forty-six materials, and thus constructed a multi-layered structure. The constructed structure contained psychophysical, affective, and prefere...

PFS: the endpoint we love and love to hate.

The lives we touch.

How do you respond when a grateful patient or family member asks, " What can I do to say thank you? " We know the work we do is important to our patients and their families, but we may not always get to see or hear about its impact on them. Sometimes we get thanks by way of candy, coffee, or other well-meaning gestures. However, there may be other ways to answer when they ask, " What can we do ...