Textured materials can enhance tactile actuators for emotional expression and passive touch experiences

Judith Weda; Angelika H. Mader; Melissa van Schaik; Adam Meijer; Dasha Kolesnyk; Jan B.F. van Erp

Textured materials can enhance tactile actuators for emotional expression and passive touch experiences

Judith Weda, Angelika H. Mader, Melissa van Schaik, Adam Meijer, Dasha Kolesnyk, Jan B.F. van Erp

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Social touch is an emotionally rich experience. When we mediate social touch through technology some of the tactile and emotional richness is lost because tactile actuators cannot display the full richness of human touch. We propose to add carefully designed textures to existing haptic actuators like vibration motors to enhance and intensify mediated touch experiences. Textures could be existing materials such as textiles varying in furriness or sandpaper varying in granularity. They could be designed by 3D-printing on textiles or by combining existing materials.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 23 Apr 2023
Event	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Abbreviated title	CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

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