Behavioural modifications, including modifications of emotional reactivity, can occur following early experience such as handling (manual rubbing). Here, we investigated the effects of unilateral tactile stimulation at an early stage on emotional reactions later on. We handled newborn foals intensively on one side of their body. This early unilateral tactile experience had medium-term effects: ...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Workshop on Tactile User Experience Evaluation Methods at CHI 2014 Abstract Designing haptic phenomena is increasingly important but difficult. Eliciting user feedback is particularly challenging. Direct means of sharing haptic sensations are limited, and the absence of unifying conceptual models for working with haptic sensations further restricts comm...

Multimodal interactive maps are a solution for presenting spatial information to visually impaired people. In this paper, we present an interactive multimodal map prototype that is based on a tactile paper map, a multi-touch screen and audio output. We first describe the different steps for designing an interactive map: drawing and printing the tactile paper map, choice of multitouch technology...

In 2014 the multi-sensory immersive experience Ilinx was premiered at the TodaysArt 2014 festival in The Hague. A key element of this work was the creation of a full-body vibrotactile garment that provided haptic sensations, working in tandem with the visual and auditory elements of the piece. The tactile sensory channel is significantly different from the auditory channel, posing novel challen...

Animals use cognitive behavior, by integrating information from multiple senses, to cope with the complex and changing environment. However, it is not yet understood how single sensory processes get modified combined multisensory cognition in these environments. To address this question, we exposed mouse positive (tactile experience enrichment (TEE)) negative (chronic restraint stress (CRS)) en...

The perception of size and form of tactile objects relies on visualization, at least for people who are sighted or those who have had longer experience of seeing (‘late blind’, Warren 1994). Non-visual alternative representations are 3D tactile or acoustic representations. This paper describes an auditory display (Agranovski et all 1996), that provides simultaneous playback and management by ei...

The sliding of a finger on a material surface results in complex physical interactions. Tactile texture displays have been limited in their ability to capture the aspects of these interactions. As a step forward, we have combined two complementary types of tactile stimuli, vibrotactile and electrostatic, to deliver roughness textures with high realism. These two types of stimuli represent the s...

The fragile X mental retardation 1 mutant mouse (Fmr1 KO) recapitulates several of the neurologic deficits associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS). As tactile hypersensitivity is a hallmark of FXS, we examined the sensory representation of individual whiskers in somatosensory barrel cortex of Fmr1 KO and wild-type (WT) mice and compared their performance in a whisker-dependent learning paradig...

We have proposed a new type of audio-tactile interface called the Straw-like User Interface (SUI) that allowed users to virtually experience the sensations of drinking with straw. The sensations were created based on data of pressure, vibration and sound recorded during drinking with a straw. The device enabled us to develop many unique interfaces, facilitating extension of research fields rela...