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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2022 17TH ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI '22)
Volume -, Issue -, Pages 787-791Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1109/HRI53351.2022.9889461
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Self-touch; Social touch interaction
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- JST CREST, Japan [JPMJCR18A1]
- JST, Moonshot RD [JPMJPS2011]
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures limit physical touching, causing increased stress. A self-touch system with touch sensor and voice function was developed to encourage self-touch behaviors. Experimental results showed that the system increased self-touch behaviors and effectively reduced stress, particularly for male participants.
Due to the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, such measures as social distancing is being promulgated to reduce community spread. Unfortunately, such steps greatly limit physical touching, and this touch starvation increases people's stress. We address this problem by focusing on touch interactions with oneself: self-touch. We developed a system that consists of a touch sensor and a supportive voice function to encourage self-touch behaviors. We experimentally evaluated whether our developed system increased self-touch behaviors and investigated its stress-buffering effects under stressful settings. The experimental results showed that the system increased self-touch behaviors, although only male participants showed significant stress-buffering effects.
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