Social interaction with conspecifics can influence the developing brain and behaviour of the exposed animal. This experience can involve the exchange and retention of visual, chemical, acoustic and tactile signals. When several Drosophila melanogaster male flies are associated with mated females in the presence of food, they show frequent aggressive interactions. To measure the role of social e...

In the newly created unusual circumstances, what follows is a transformation of three principles visual merchandising from real to virtual experience visual, tactile (emotional) perception customer, balanced offer and freedom choices. Finding adopting new methods models communication aim to, globally, give fashion brands efficient fast access each individual can enter into dialogic form with th...

Bringing touch into VR experiences through haptics is considered increasingly important for user engagement and fostering feelings of presence immersion, yet few qualitative studies have explored users' iVR experiences. This paper takes an embodied approach–bringing attention to the tactile-kinaesthetic body–to explore wholistic in iVR, moving beyond cutaneous tactile elements “feeling” elabora...

In this work, we investigate how using the haptic channel as a complement to the audio/vocal one can provide better support for the use of mobile museum guides for blind users. The aim is to improve autonomy and social integration of blind visitors. Based on our previous experience in mobile guide design, the proposed solution aims to add tactile feedback enhancement for orientation support and...

In order to endow robots with human-like abilities to characterize and identify objects, they must be provided with tactile sensors and intelligent algorithms to select, control, and interpret data from useful exploratory movements. Humans make informed decisions on the sequence of exploratory movements that would yield the most information for the task, depending on what the object may be and ...

Susan Hurley andAlva Noë PAIS, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK Department of Philosophy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-2390, USA Corresponding authors: Susan Hurley (e-mail: [email protected]; http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/S.L.Hurley) and Alva Noe (e-mail: [email protected]; http://people.ucsc.edu/~anoe. (Note: Authorship is fully joint; the authors are listed alphabetically.)...

Keywords: Apis mellifera dance communication honeybee mechanosensory input tactile stimulus waggle dance The waggle dance of honeybees, Apis mellifera, is one of the most remarkable communication systems of the animal kingdom. In this study, we focused on a major gap in the understanding of this striking behaviour: the question of the sensory modality by which meaningful information is transfer...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Roberto Pugliese Name of the doctoral dissertation Creating and evaluating embodied interactive experiences: case studies of full-body, sonic and tactile enaction. Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Computer Science Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 205/2015 Field of research Interac...

Human middle temporal complex (hMT+) responds also to the perception of non-visual motion in both sighted and early blind individuals, indicating a supramodal organization. Visual experience, however, leads to a segregation of hMT+ into a more anterior subregion, involved in the supramodal representation of motion, and a posterior subregion that processes visual motion only. In contrast, in con...