期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 331-342出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TAFFC.2020.3038137
关键词
Haptic interfaces; Physiology; Virtual reality; Mobile handsets; Libraries; Games; Computer science; Affective interaction; haptic response; virtual reality; physiology; emotional expression; virtual agent
The study explored how emotional expressions of virtual agents influence the way humans touch them. The results showed that people's emotional perception and experience affect the intensity and duration of touch towards virtual agents, suggesting that haptic responses can serve as an implicit measure of people's experience with their virtual companions.
Interpersonal touch is critical for social-emotional development and presents a powerful modality for communicating emotions. Virtual agents of the future could capitalize on touch to establish social bonds with humans and facilitate cooperation in virtual reality (VR). We studied whether the emotional expression of a virtual agent would affect the way humans touch the agent. Participants were asked to hold a pressure-sensing tube presented as the agent's arm in VR. Upon seeing the agent's emotional expression change, participants briefly squeezed the arm. The effect of emotional expressions on affective state was measured using self-reported valence and arousal as well as physiology-based indices. Onset, duration, and intensity of the squeeze were recorded to examine the haptic responses. Emotional expression of agents affected squeeze intensity and duration through changes in emotional perception and experience. Haptic responses may thus provide an implicit measure of persons' experience towards their virtual companion.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据