Understanding Affective Haptics

Touch plays a prominent role in communicating emotions and intensifying interpersonal communication. Affective Haptics is an emerging field, which focuses on the analysis, design, and evaluation of systems that can capture, process, or display emotions via the sense of touch. In this project, we are exploring the relationship between mediated touch and emotions. We areexploring how mediated touch can elicit emotional responses in various application areas including surface haptics, virtual reality, and distance inter-personal communication. To facilitate quantitative, cognitive evaluation of human emotion, we are developing techniques for recognizing human emotion using. Here are some of the projects we are developing.

Individuals Involved

1. Muhammad Hassan Jamil

2. Wanjoo Park

3. Georgios Korres

4. Georgios Karafotias

5. Mohamad Eid

Publications

• Wanjoo Park, Mohammed Hassan Jamil, Ruth Ghidey Gebremedhin, and Mohamad Eid, “Effects of Tactile Textures on Preference in Visuo-Tactile Exploration”, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2021 (accepted).

• Muhammad Hassan Jamil, Wanjoo Park, and Mohamad Eid, “Emotional Responses to Watching and Touching 3D Emotional Face in a Virtual Environment”, Virtual Reality, pp. 1-12, 2020.

• Georgios Korres, Camilla Birgitte Falk Jensen, Wanjoo Park, Carsten Bartsch, and Mohamad Eid, “A Vibrotactile Alarm System For Pleasant Awakening”, accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 357-366, September 2018.

• Georgios Karafotias, Georgios Korres, Akiko Teranishi, Wanjoo Park, and Mohamad Eid, “Mid-air Tactile Stimulation for Pain Distraction”, IEEE Transactions on Haptics,Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-191, June 2018.

• Rodrigo Ceballos, Beatrice Ionascu, Wanjoo Park, and Mohamad Eid, “Implicit Emotion Communication: EEG Classification and Haptic Feedback”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Article No. 3, January 2018.

• Georgios Karafotias, Akiko Teranishi, Georgios Korres, Friederike Eyssel, Scandar Copti, and Mohamad Eid, “Intensifying Emotional Reactions via Tactile Gestures in Immersive Films”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM),Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Article No. 29, August 2017.

• Rodrigo Ceballos, Beatrice Ionascu, Friederike Eyssel, Scandar Copti, and Mohamad Eid, “Authoring Tactile Gestures: Case Study for Emotion Stimulation”, International Conference on Biometrics and Affective Engineering, Venice, Italy, Nov 07-08, 2016 (BEST PAPER AWARD).

• Mohamad Eid and Hussein Al Osman, “Affective haptics: current research and future directions”, IEEE Access, Volume: 4, Pages: 26-40, November 2015.