Monocular estimation of three dimensional human self-contact is fundamental for detailed scene analysis including body language understanding and behaviour modeling. Existing 3d reconstruction methods do not focus on regions in consequently recover configurations that are either far from each other or self-intersecting, when they should just touch. This leads to perceptually incorrect estimates...

The neural mechanisms of the powerful analgesia induced by touching a painful body part are controversial. A long tradition of neurophysiologic studies in anaesthetized spinal animals indicate that touch can gate nociceptive input at spinal level. In contrast, recent studies in awake humans have suggested that supraspinal mechanisms can be sufficient to drive touch-induced analgesia. To investi...

Touch is central to interpersonal interactions. Touch conveys specific emotions about the touch provider, but it is not clear whether this is a purely socially learned function or whether it has neurophysiological specificity. In two experiments with healthy participants (N = 76 and 61) and one neuropsychological single case study, we investigated whether a type of touch characterised by periph...

C-tactile (CT) afferents are low-threshold mechanoreceptors present in the skin of humans and thought to convey positive pleasant aspects touch, due their optimal firing during gentle, caress-like contact. This review explores role function through evidence produced microneurography studies, where it is possible record from single CTs awake, healthy humans. send a relatively delayed signal brai...

This paper presents a novel coupling of haptics technology and music, introducing the notion of tactile composition or aesthetic composition for the sense of touch. A system that facilitates the composition and perception of intricate, musically structured spatio-temporal patterns of vibration on the surface of the body is described. An initial test of the system in a performance context is dis...

Skin has been proposed as a large, always-available, and easy to access input surface for mobile computing. However, it is fundamentally different than prior rigid devices: skin is elastic, highly curved, and provides tactile sensation. This thesis advances the understanding of skin as an input surface and contributes novel skin-worn devices and their interaction techniques. We present the indi...

OBJECTIVE Tactile spatial acuity is routinely tested in neurology to assess the state of the dorsal column system. In contrast, spatial acuity for pain is not assessed, having never been systematically characterized. More than a century after the initial description of tactile acuity across the body, we provide the first systematic whole-body mapping of spatial acuity for pain. METHODS We eva...

Introduction Earlier ways of being in touch with each other have been turned into nostalgia the way COVID-19 did and continues to shake world. There has an enormous move under towards zoom, telephones, etc. do online psychoanalysis psychotherapy. Audio video taken exceptional agential forms by replacing physical hearing seeing. Physical is replaced a virtual touch. The extended meaning body, fe...