Affective Touching : Neurobiology and Technological Applications
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
ISBN-10
1009484370
ISBN-13
9781009484374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 20th, 2025
Print length
76 Pages
Weight
124 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.20 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideas
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Part I ofthis Element offers a history of the science of social touch, from related discoveries in mammals by physiologists in the 1930s, to the recent rediscoveries of the CT nerves in humans. Part II considers how these findings are being intentionally folded into technologies for interaction.
At the end of the twentieth century the discovery of ''slow'', affective touch nerves in humans known as C Tactile (CT) afferents, which are entirely separate from the faster pathways for touching objects, had huge social implications. The Swedish neuroscientists responsible formulated an affective touch hypothesis or social touch hypothesis to consider their purpose. Part I offers a history of the science of social touch, from related discoveries in mammals by physiologists in the 1930s, to the recent rediscoveries of the CT nerves in humans. Part II considers how these findings are being intentionally folded into technologies for interaction. First, as mediated social touch, communicating at a distance through haptics. Second, with the increasing number of social and service robots in health care and domestic settings, the role of affective touch within human-robot interaction design.
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