Taxonomy: add a human touch too

Seems like a touch too much.

Therapeutic Touch efficacy: A Systematic Review

Background: Recently, the "Disruptions in the Energy Field" have been omitted from the list of nursing diagnoses published by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA). Therapeutic touch is a scientific nursing intervention. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the efficacy of therapeutic touch (TT) and investigate the tenability of omitting this diagnosis from the N...

How to recover Marcus theory with fewest switches surface hopping: add just a touch of decoherence.

We present a slightly improved version of our augmented fewest switches surface hopping (A-FSSH) algorithm and apply it to the calculation of transition rates between diabatic electronic states within the spin-boson model. We compare A-FSSH rates with (i) Marcus rates from the golden rule, (ii) Tully-style FSSH rates, and (iii) FSSH rates using a simple, intuitive decoherence criterion. We show...

A mechatronic platform for human touch studies

The development of a mechatronic tactile stimulation platform for touch studies is presented. The platform was developed for stimulation of the fingertip using textured surfaces, providing repeatable tangential sliding motion of stimuli with controlled indentation force. Particular requirements were addressed to make the platform suitable for neurophysiological studies in humans with particular...

Does A Robot's Touch Encourage Human Effort?

The paper investigated the effects on a person being touched by a robot to motivate her . Human science literature has shown that touches to others facilitate efforts of touched people. On the other hand, in the human-robot interaction research field, past research has failed to focus on the effects of such touches from robots to people. A few studies reported negative impressions from people, ...