Affective Haptics and Multimodal Experiments Research

Abstract

Touch plays a significant role in emotion communication, and affective haptics are becoming an emerging field in terms of designing and implementing multimodal experience in human-computer interactions. The present study explores the affective haptics and multimodal experiments. By the literature review of human emotional feedback on haptic signal and affective haptic devices, the multimodal experiments were designed and implemented. Three types of haptic signals (random, vibration and stroking stimuli) are designed and implemented. The results demonstrated that haptic affective signals affect similar emotion in both the haptic only and visual-haptic multimodal scenario, and visual stimuli largely dominate the emotional state compared with haptic stimuli.