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View article: Can Hugging a Soft Robotic Cushion Help When You Feel Worried?
Can Hugging a Soft Robotic Cushion Help When You Feel Worried? Open
Have you ever felt worried or scared about something? That feeling is called anxiety, and it is normal to feel this from time to time. Unfortunately, people can sometimes feel so anxious that it makes them feel sick and stops them from doi…
View article: Flextiles: Designing Customisable Shape-Change in Textiles with SMA-Actuated Smocking Patterns
Flextiles: Designing Customisable Shape-Change in Textiles with SMA-Actuated Smocking Patterns Open
Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) afford the seamless integration of shape-changing behaviour into textiles, enabling designers to augment apparel with dynamic shaping and styling. However, existing works fall short of providing versatile methods…
View article: Just a Breath Away: Investigating Interactions with and Perceptions of Mediated Breath via a Haptic Cushion
Just a Breath Away: Investigating Interactions with and Perceptions of Mediated Breath via a Haptic Cushion Open
Feeling another person's breathing is an intimate encounter that can promote deep connection, communicate affective information, and influence our physiological state. Emerging technologies are exploring the mediation of biosignals, such a…
View article: Base and Stitch: Evaluating eTextile Interfaces from a Material-Centric View
Base and Stitch: Evaluating eTextile Interfaces from a Material-Centric View Open
Fabrics are seen as the foundation for e-textile interfaces but contribute their own tactile properties to interaction. We examine the role of fabrics in gestural interaction from a novel, textile-focused view. We replicated an eTextile se…
View article: A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety
A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety Open
Anxiety disorders affect approximately one third of people during their lifetimes and are the ninth leading cause of global disability. Current treatments focus on therapy and pharmacological interventions. However, therapy is costly and p…
View article: FeelMusic: Enriching Our Emotive Experience of Music through Audio-Tactile Mappings
FeelMusic: Enriching Our Emotive Experience of Music through Audio-Tactile Mappings Open
We present and evaluate the concept of FeelMusic and evaluate an implementation of it. It is an augmentation of music through the haptic translation of core musical elements. Music and touch are intrinsic modes of affective communication t…
View article: In Contact: Pinching, Squeezing and Twisting for Mediated Social Touch
In Contact: Pinching, Squeezing and Twisting for Mediated Social Touch Open
Mediated social touch has the potential to enhance our interactions with machines and with each other. We present three wearable tactile devices that generate affective haptic sensations via three localised skin stretching modalities; pinc…
View article: RUBIC: An Untethered Soft Robot With Discrete Path Following
RUBIC: An Untethered Soft Robot With Discrete Path Following Open
Soft robots have the potential to diminish the need for humans to venture into unsuitable environments or work in extreme conditions. While their soft nature gives them the advantage of being adaptable to changing environments, their contr…