“KUSUGURI: Visual Tactile Integration for Tickling”
Conference:
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Title:
- KUSUGURI: Visual Tactile Integration for Tickling
Description:
Tickling as physical contact plays an important role in close relationships [Provine 2004]. Whereas a mobile phone and video chat are commonly used for remote communication, remote tickling is seldom used for physical contact.
References:
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Provine, R. R.: Laughing, Tickling, and the Evolution of Speech and Self, Current Directions in Psychological Science 13: pp.215–218, 2004
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Kitagawa, N. and Spence, C.: Audiotactile multisensory interactions in human information processing, Japanese Psychol. Research, Volume 48, No. 3, pp.158–173, 2006


