The virtual Midas touch : helping behavior after a mediated social touch

A. Haans; W.A. IJsselsteijn; M.P. Graus; J.A. Salminen

The virtual Midas touch : helping behavior after a mediated social touch

A. Haans
, W.A. IJsselsteijn
, M.P. Graus
, J.A. Salminen

Human Technology Interaction

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

A brief touch on the upper arm increases people's altruistic behavior and willingness to comply to a request. In this paper, we investigate whether this Midas Touch effect would also occur under mediated conditions (i.e., a text messaging system and an arm strap equipped with vibrotactile actuators). Although helping behavior was more frequently endorsed in the touch, compared to the no touch condition, this difference was not found to be statistically significant. Such a failure to find response similarities between vibrotactile stimulation and real (i.e., unmediated) physical contact undermines the design rationale of the field of mediated social touch, which aims to provide an alternative for real physical contact.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 26th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	3507-3512
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-012-X
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	26th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008 - Florence, Italy Duration: 5 Apr 2008 → 10 Apr 2008 Conference number: 26 http://www.chi2008.org/ http://www.chi2010.org/

Conference

Conference	26th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008
Abbreviated title	CHI 2008
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	5/04/08 → 10/04/08
Internet address	http://www.chi2008.org/ http://www.chi2010.org/

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Haans, A , IJsselsteijn, WA, Graus, MP & Salminen, JA 2008, The virtual Midas touch : helping behavior after a mediated social touch. in Proceedings of the 26th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York, pp. 3507-3512, 26th Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy, 5/04/08.

The virtual Midas touch : helping behavior after a mediated social touch. / Haans, A.; IJsselsteijn, W.A.; Graus, M.P. et al.
Proceedings of the 26th CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008, Florence, Italy. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2008. p. 3507-3512.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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