DocumentCode :
909377
Title :
The Virtual Midas Touch: Helping Behavior After a Mediated Social Touch
Author :
Haans, Antal ; Usselsteijn, W.A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. Eng. & Innovation Sci., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands
Volume :
2
Issue :
3
fYear :
2009
Firstpage :
136
Lastpage :
140
Abstract :
A brief touch on the upper arm increases people´s altruistic behavior and willingness to comply with a request. In this paper, we investigate whether this Midas touch phenomenon would also occur under mediated conditions (i.e., touching via an arm strap equipped with electromechanical actuators). Helping behavior was more frequently endorsed in the touch, compared to the no-touch condition, but this difference was not found to be statistically significant. However, a meta-analytical comparison with published research demonstrated that the strength of the virtual Midas touch is of the same magnitude as that of the Midas touch in unmediated situations. The present experiment, thus, provides empirical evidence that touch-like qualities can be attributed to electromechanical stimulation. This is important for the field of mediated social touch of which the design rationale is based on the assumption that mediated touch by means of tactile feedback technologies is processed in ways similar to real physical contact.
Keywords :
augmented reality; haptic interfaces; human factors; augmented realities; electromechanical stimulation; haptic technology; human factors; mediated social touch; tactile feedback technologies; touch-like qualities; virtual Midas touch; virtual realities; Actuators; Communication system control; Feedback; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Industrial engineering; Prototypes; Psychology; Technological innovation; Virtual reality; Artificial; and virtual realities; augmented; communications applications.; evaluation/methodology; haptic technology; human factors; human haptics; psychology;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Haptics, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1939-1412
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TOH.2009.20
Filename :
4967585
Link To Document :
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