A tool to study affective touch: Goals and design of the Haptic Creature

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4153-4158

  Yohanan, Steve ^a   MacLean, Karon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affective touch; Haptic interface; Human animal interaction; Human robot interaction; Social touch

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE TOUCH; HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTION; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; INTERNAL STATE; ITS ARCHITECTURE; SMALL ROBOTS; SOCIAL TOUCH; VIBROTACTILE;

ABSTRACTING; ANIMALS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); ROBOTS;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 70349113389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1520340.1520632     Document Type: Conference Paper

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