Multi-touch input using multiple fingertips or hands has become the de-facto standard for the interaction with interactive surfaces such as tablets, tabletops or interactive walls. For single touch input, the addition of synchronous tactile feedback has shown to be beneficial in terms of reducing error-rates, increasing interaction speed and minimizing visual load. However, to this day, the non...

Abstract As most philosophers recognize, the body’s central role in touch differs from it plays other sense modalities. Any account of must then explain pivotal nature involvement touch. Unlike accounts touch, this paper argues that centrality is not phenomenological or experiential: body felt any special way tactile experiences. Building on Aristotle’s De Anima, I argue because medium percepti...

An early integration of tactile sensing into motor coordination is the norm in animals, but still a challenge for robots. Tactile exploration through touches on body gives rise to first models and bootstraps further development such as reaching competence. Reaching one’s own requires connections space only. Still, problems high dimensionality redundancy persist. Through an embodied computationa...

This chapter offers a critical philosophical examination of recent work on pleasant (or affective) touch. After developing a distinction between two notions of perceptual affect, I argue that “emotional” and “affi liative” touch are best understood as causing affective reactions, and that affective touch is best understood as perceptually presenting us with affective qualities. In other words, ...

The last two decades have seen a multitude of publications showing the activation of an observer's somatosensory cortical system during the observation of touch on another person. Behavioral demonstrations of "mirror touch," however, have been slow in coming forward, and have so far primarily been shown as "visual remapping of touch" on the face. The present study uses a new paradigm to investi...

Operators of a pair of robotic hands report ownership for those hands when they hold image of a grasp motion and watch the robot perform it. We present a novel body ownership illusion that is induced by merely watching and controlling robot's motions through a brain machine interface. In past studies, body ownership illusions were induced by correlation of such sensory inputs as vision, touch a...

background: many alternative interventions are practiced in an effort to reduce symptoms of fibromiyalgia. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of sleep and touch therapy accompanied by music and aromatherapy on the symptoms of fibromyalgia and depression. methods: the study was carried out between september 2009 and march 2011 in the physical medicine and rehabilitation polyclini...

Hand prostheses that are currently available on the market are used by amputees to only a limited extent, partly because of lack of sensory feedback from the artificial hand. We report a pilot study that showed how amputees can experience a robot-like advanced hand prosthesis as part of their own body. We induced a perceptual illusion by which touch applied to the stump of the arm was experienc...

We should remember that in its games the chimpanzee used a stick without any compelling practical necessity, as an object of play and that this stick, as an object of play, began to serve in a variety of roles: as a pole which it would climb, or, as a spoon, enabling it to eat, or as a shovel for digging up roots; lastly the animal used the tool as a ‘general purpose tool’, in Köhler’s expressi...

With the increased popularity of touchscreen mobile phones, touch gesture behavior is becoming more and more important. Increasing demand for safer access in touch screen mobile phones, ancient strategies like pins, tokens, or passwords fail to stay up with the challenges conferred. Most of the current touch gesture authentication schemes facing problem with accuracy based on score classifiers ...