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LOCATION:TUD Materials Science - HAL\, Hallwachsstraße 301069 Dresden
SUMMARY:Fairhurst: New frontiers for digital social touch
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Merle Fairhurst\nInstitute of Speaker: Chair of Acoust
 ics and Haptics\, TU Dresden\nTopics:\nBiologie\n Location:\n  Name: TUD M
 aterials Science - HAL (HAL Bürogebäude - 115)\n  Street: Hallwachsstra
 ße 3\n  City: 01069 Dresden\n  Phone: \n  Fax: \nDescription: Despite the
  importance of social touch to human flourishing\, what we touch the most 
 on a day-to-day basis is our smartphone. New technological developments\, 
 including mixed reality technologies\, affective haptics and social robots
 \, introduce new ways in which our sense of touch engages with digital tec
 hnologies. These developments reshape what we touch\, how we experience so
 cial touch\, and ask us to reconsider what role touch can play in social i
 nteractions mediated by digital technologies. In this talk\, I will presen
 t recent work including the development and benchmarking of novel affectiv
 e haptic devices aimed at enhancing digital social interactions. This will
  include describing how these devices might improve embodiment and interpe
 rsonal connectedness in virtual reality as well as how these might be inco
 rporated into Human-Robot-Interactions to foster trust and cooperation. I 
 will focus on how we evaluate these touch tools with measures that tap int
 o both the meaning of touch (beyond “pleasantness”) and function of to
 uch (e.g. regulating autonomic arousal).
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