Affective Haptics Project
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.
Emotional responses to watching and touching 3D emotional face in a virtual environment
Mid-air Tactile Stimulation for Pain Distraction
Implicit Emotion Communication: EEG Classification and Haptic Feedback