Virtual Touch Toolkit: My Body in Your Hands

Virtual Touch Toolkit: My Body in Your Hands

Not all touch is pleasant with both individual and cultural differences in how affective touch is perceived
How we feel about touch depends on “who” is touching me, “where” and "why". For a more nuanced understanding of affective touch, we have created a Virtual Touch Toolkit (Najm et al., 2022). This novel digital touch tool allows for ecological testing which is particularly useful within the context of touch which is a personal and often intimate experience. With it we can more specifically test context driven effects: who, where, when and what will determine how we feel about touch . The tool captures both how we like to be touched but also how we use our sense of touch. The following data is from several instances of using the "My body in your hands" exercise including large citizen science projects as well as a User experience study in which all of the touch exercises were sampled.

Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2050/1 – Project ID 390696704 – Cluster of Excellence “Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop” (CeTI) of Technische Universität Dresden.

"虚拟触觉工具包：你掌中的我的身体"

并非所有触觉体验都令人愉悦，个体与文化差异会影响人们对情感性触觉（affective touch）的感知。我们对触觉的感受取决于"触碰者是谁"、"触碰部位在哪里"以及"触碰的缘由为何"。为了更细致地理解情感性触觉，我们研发了虚拟触觉工具包（Virtual Touch Toolkit，Najm等人，2022）。这款新颖的数字化触觉工具支持生态效度测试，鉴于触觉属于极具私密性且往往带有亲密性的体验，该测试方法在此场景中尤为实用。借助该工具，我们能够更精准地测试情境驱动的影响效应：触碰者、触碰部位、触碰时机以及触碰内容将如何决定我们对触觉的感受。该工具既可以记录人们偏好的触碰方式，也能采集人们如何运用自身触觉感知的相关数据。本次公开的数据集源自多项"你掌中的我的身体"（My body in your hands）触觉练习实验，其中涵盖大型公民科学项目，以及一项对所有触觉练习进行采样的用户体验研究。

本项目由德国研究基金会（Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG）作为德国卓越战略计划的一部分资助——项目编号为EXC 2050/1，项目ID为390696704，隶属于德累斯顿工业大学"人机闭环触觉互联网卓越中心"（Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop, CeTI）卓越集群。