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Haptic Feedback Increases Perceived Social Presence

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Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations (EuroHaptics 2010)

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Passing an object between two people is a common event that happens in various forms for example when giving someone a cup of coffee. An experimental study is presented where passing objects between two people in a virtual environment with haptic feedback was compared to passing objects in a nonhaptic virtual environment. The aim of the experiment was to investigate if and how added haptic feedback in such an environment affects perceived virtual presence, perceived social presence and perceived task performance. A within subject design was used, were nine pairs of subjects performed a hand off task with six differently sized cubes without audio communication. Results showed that haptic force feedback significantly improved perceived virtual presence, perceived social presence and perceived performance in this experiment.

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  1. Dept of Human-Computer Interaction, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Eva-Lotta Sallnäs

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  1. Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584, Utrecht, CH, The Netherlands

    Astrid M. L. Kappers  & Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest  & 

  2. TNO Human Factors, PO Box 23, 3769 ZG, Soesterberg, The Netherlands

    Jan B. F. van Erp

  3. Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 2, 2628, Delft, CD, The Netherlands

    Frans C. T. van der Helm

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Sallnäs, EL. (2010). Haptic Feedback Increases Perceived Social Presence. In: Kappers, A.M.L., van Erp, J.B.F., Bergmann Tiest, W.M., van der Helm, F.C.T. (eds) Haptics: Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations. EuroHaptics 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14075-4_26

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