Preeti Vyas

schoolUniversity of British Columbiabar_chart#4621 Global Rank

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Tattered Teddies and Pentagram Charms: How People Use Touchable Comfort Objects and What This Means for Designing Affective Haptic Systems

Many people use physical objects to self-calm and regulate difficult emotions. Studies evaluating the effectiveness of Touchable Comfort Objects (TCOs) imbued with haptic expressivity, affect awareness, and adaptive support have been primarily lab-based, so we know little about underlying user needs and real-world pra…

UIST '245th+ AuthorVibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation

What is Affective Touch Made Of? A Soft Capacitive Sensor Array Reveals the Interplay between Shear, Normal Stress and Individuality

Humans physically express emotion by modulating parameters that register on mammalian skin mechanoreceptors, but are unavailable in current touch-sensing technology. Greater sensory richness combined with data on affect-expression composition is a prerequisite to estimating affect from touch, with applications inclu…

CHI '231st AuthorVibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +1

A Descriptive Analysis of a Formative Decade of Research in Affective Haptic System Design

The global pandemic exposed serious drawbacks in relying on communication modalities in which social touch, however important, is absent. Considerable research has explored haptic technologies for sensing or displaying social touch and influencing affective state, for wellness, social communication, emotion regulation…

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