Touch sensing interfaces are used in many human to machine applications with the natural feeling to the touch missing. We propose the use of humantenna touch technique to turn surfaces of natural or arti cial conductive or semi-conductive materials into passive touch pads. Because of the conductivity of the human body, AC power lines induce a voltage on the human body which is used as the touch...

Two NFC-based interactions are described in the paper. The first interaction technique is referred to as Touch & Connect: a process by which an NFC tag is used to rapidly pair a mobile device with a computer. The second interaction technique is referred to as Touch & Select, and considerably extends the Touch & Connect concept by allowing the use of an NFC-enabled mobile phone to directly touch...

Interest in multi-touch interaction with large and small displays surfaces has seen a recent explosion. We describe key moments in " multi-touch's " latest history and rank " multi-touch " in Gartner's five-phase hype cycle. We also (re)highlight the issues that designers have to take into account when designing multi-touch applications on multi-touch sensitive surfaces to address the ensuing p...

Combining mediated social touch (interpersonal touch over a distance) with visual feedback allows people to both see and feel their interaction partner’s touches. Combining touch with vision is expected to increase the transparency of the interface, as well as the user’s sense of telepresence. We anticipated these positive effects of visual feedback to depend on the morphological congruence of ...

Mirror-touch synaesthesia is a condition where observing touch to another's body induces a subjective tactile sensation on the synaesthetes body. The present study explores which characteristics of the inducing stimulus modulate the synaesthetic touch experience. Fourteen mirror-touch synaesthetes watched videos depicting a touch event while indicating (i) whether the video induced a tactile se...

Prior research has assumed that touch has a persuasive effect only if it provides attribute or structural information about a product. Under this view, the role of touch as a persuasive tool is limited. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the persuasive influence of touch as an affective tool in the absence of useful product-related information. The authors find that for people ...

The communicative functions that the tactile modality serves in infancy have been severely neglected by researchers. The present article highlights the importance of touch by addressing two questions. First, what is communicated to infants by touch from their caregivers? In addition to the common notion that touch regulates arousal levels, it is argued that touch is capable of communicating val...