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TouchBranch: Understanding Interpersonal Touches in Interactive Installation

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Hyun-Sook Choi,

Woohun LeeAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 535 - 546

https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196740

Published: 08 June 2018 Publication History

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Interpersonal touch, one of the most primitive social languages, is an excellent design element frequently used in interaction design. In this paper, we present a richer understanding of it by using spatial factors and social relations among people, which has rarely been explored in interactive systems. We designed an interactive installation called "TouchBranch" where players can move light between branches placed at various distances by connecting their bodies. The user studies were conducted with 21 groups consisting of intimates, acquaintances, and strangers. We observed a change in the interpersonal touch pattern and touch tolerance according to each factor. Interestingly, the effect of the social relation was dramatic, but that of the spatial factor was not quantitatively significant. Nevertheless, we discovered that spatial factor can influence the interpersonal touch experience. Based on the results, we discuss in this paper the influence of two factors on the interpersonal touch that stands out in the context of interactive systems.

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TouchBranch: Understanding Interpersonal Touches in Interactive Installation
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Guo GLeshed GGreen K(2023)“I normally wouldn’t talk with strangers”: Introducing a Socio-Spatial Interface for Fostering Togetherness Between StrangersProceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544548.3581325(1-20)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581325
Li SYang YHe MWang YYao CHarle RFarrahi KLane N(2019)TONGAdjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers10.1145/3341162.3343781(117-120)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3341162.3343781
Hachisu TBourreau BSuzuki KBrewster SFitzpatrick GCox AKostakos V(2019)EnhancedTouchXProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300551(1-12)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3290605.3300551

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