Pseudohaptic Social Touch Enhances Social Connection and Physiological Regulation in Virtual Reality

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Social touch fosters human connection, intimacy and well-being. Yet, physical contact is often absent from remote communication, even though digital interactions are becoming an increasingly central part of everyday life. Current technologies can hardly recreate the haptic richness of real social touch, but pseudohaptics offer alternative possibilities for meaningful mediated touch expe...

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78b62b40-40de-5c91-91a7-670c6641e48b

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-10057006/v1