Chrys Morton

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…