Discriminative touch and emotional touch. by McGlone, F, Vallbo, AB, Olausson, H, Loken, L, Wessberg, J

“…These input channels can be further classified as subserving a sensory function of spatial and temporal localization, discrimination, and provision of essential information for controlling and guiding exploratory tactile behaviours, and an affective function that is widely recognized as providing the afferent neural input driving the subjective experience of pain, but not so widely recognized as also providing the subjective experience of affiliative or emotional somatic pleasure of touch. The discriminative properties of tactile sensation are mediated by a class of fast-conducting myelinated peripheral nerve fibres--A-beta fibres--whereas the rewarding, emotional properties of touch are hypothesized to be mediated by a class of unmyelinated peripheral nerve fibres--CT afferents (C tactile)--that have biophysical, electrophysiological, neurobiological, and anatomical properties that drive the temporally delayed emotional somatic system. …”

Touch me! Do not touch Me! Sensing Mesopotamia through touch in museums by Collins, P

Multi-touch navigation with an iPod touch by Liu, Weiqiang.

“…The purpose of this project is to integrate the multi touch capability of an Apple Inc. iPod Touch or iPhone into an existing Starview system, a 3D virtual space environment that allows a user to navigate around in the 3D space and provide information about picked stars.…”
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When I touch my hand it touches me back: an investigation of the illusion of self-touch by White, RC

“…<p>Following stroke, a patient may fail to report touch administered by another person but claim that s/he feels touch when it is self-administered. …”

Healing touch. by Mok, Shu Jing., Ow, Chiann Huey., Wong, Shu Wan.

“…This documentary short titled The Healing Touch is produced by a group of graduating students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. …”
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Social touch by Gallace, A, Spence, C

“…The available research also suggests that touch plays an important role in supporting our well-being.…”

Touching is believing : sensing and analyzing touch information with GelSight by Li, Rui, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Holding without touch: supportive touch in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy by Insua-Summerhays, B, Jacobs, E

Touch-based percussion system using multiple multi-touch devices by Ngu, Leong Keng

“…With the advancement of technology, mobile gadgets such as smart phones with multi-touch technologies have become an important tool in our daily lives. …”
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Cognitive influences on the affective representation of touch and the sight of touch in the human brain. by Mccabe, C, Rolls, E, Bilderbeck, A, McGlone, F

“…We show that the affective experience of touch and the sight of touch can be modulated by cognition, and investigate in an fMRI study where top-down cognitive modulations of bottom-up somatosensory and visual processing of touch and its affective value occur in the human brain. …”

‘A Touch of Love’ by Norhidayah, Mohamad

“…‘A Touch of Love’ is a program organized by Universiti Malaysia Pahang and Perbadanan Kemajuan Pertanian Negeri Pahang (PKPP) to cherish and celebrate 167 orphans from Nur Iman Orphanage and Tun Abdul Razak Caring House. …”
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Restoring the sense of touch by Anikeeva, Polina Olegovna, Koppes, Ryan

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Interactive Touch for Manipulation by Wang, Shaoxiong

“…This thesis will focus on how to let robots leverage touch for manipulation in interactive means. We demonstrate several hardware platforms equipped with tactile sensing and integrated perception and control frameworks to apply interactive touch to real-world manipulation tasks. (1) We use touch for manipulating deformable objects like cables, using real-time tactile feedback during sliding. …”
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Active Touch Sensing by Hillis, William Daniel

“…The mechanical hand of the future will roll a screw between its fingers and sense, by touch, which end is which. This paper describes a step toward such a manipulator ?? …”
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Active touch sensing by Hillis, William Daniel

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Stretchable touch pads by Leo, Qi Bin

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What is active touch? by Razavi, S

“…What is active touch? A common conception of active touch gives a rough but rather intuitive sketch. …”

A touch of gastronomy by Spence, C, Hobkinson, C, Gallace, A, Fiszman, B

“…The last few years have seen a rapid growth of research interest in the study of the role of touch and oral-somatosensation in the experience of eating and drinking. …”

Touching my left elbow: the anatomical structure of the body affects the illusion of self-touch. by White, R, Davies, A

“…A self-touch paradigm is used to create the illusion that one is touching one's own left elbow when one is actually touching the examiner's arm. …”

Where the touching is touched: the role of haptic attentive unity in the dialogue between maker and material by Malafouris, L, Koukouti, M-D

“…This paper, drawing on research from the ‘HANDMADE - Understanding Creative Gesture in Pottery Making’ project (sponsored by the ERC), will attempt to show how a focus on the temporality of touch and the tactility of making can help us disambiguate the often discussed, but little understood, dialogue between maker and material. …”