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Even when a pet owner is away from his/her pet, he/she often wants to feel closer to the pet. The purpose of this study is to provide a means for the pet owner to feel the presence of his/her pet even when away from it; this is achieved by exchange of haptic feedback. In this paper, we describe such a remote haptic interaction system that consists of haptic devices for remote haptic communication; we also utilize tablets for video chat. A pet owner and his/her pet can feel closer to one another via haptic responses generated by corresponding haptic device. Two experimental evaluations were conducted to compare interactions between a pet owner and his/her pet using our system with another interactions achieved only via video chat. Results showed that these remote haptic interactions increased the pet owner’s feeling of communicating with his/her pet. In general, pet owners reported feeling closer to their pet by using our system.
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Murata, K., Usui, K., Shibuya, Y. (2014). Effect of Haptic Perception on Remote Human-Pet Interaction. In: Yamamoto, S. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design and Evaluation. HIMI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07731-4_23
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