IEEE Trans Haptics. 2017 Jul-Sep;10(3):391-408. doi: 10.1109/TOH.2017.2650221. Epub 2017 Jan 9.
This survey provides an overview of work on haptic technology for social touch. Social touch has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience. With the development of new technologies, it is now possible to engage in social touch at a distance or engage in social touch with artificial social agents. Social touch research has inspired research into technology mediated social touch, and this line of research has found effects similar to actual social touch. The importance of haptic stimulus qualities, multimodal cues, and contextual factors in technology mediated social touch is discussed. This survey is concluded by reflecting on the current state of research into social touch technology, and providing suggestions for future research and applications.
本调查概述了用于社交触摸的触觉技术研究。社交触摸在心理学和神经科学领域得到了广泛研究。随着新技术的发展，现在可以进行远程社交触摸或与人工社交代理进行社交触摸。社交触摸研究激发了对技术介导的社交触摸的研究，并且这一研究领域已经发现了与实际社交触摸相似的效果。讨论了在技术介导的社交触摸中触觉刺激质量、多模态线索和上下文因素的重要性。最后，通过反思当前社交触摸技术研究的现状，并为未来的研究和应用提供建议，对调查进行了总结。
