Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Affective Haptics(also: Emotional Haptics)
- A subfield of haptic interaction design concerned with using tactile and kinaesthetic feedback — vibration, pressure, temperature, squeezing, stroking, heartbeat-like pulsation — to communicate, evoke, or regulate emotion. Affective haptics draws on research showing that touch…
- Affective Touch(also: Social Touch, Emotional Touch)
- The emotional and social dimension of touch, distinct from discriminative touch that identifies object properties. Affective touch is mediated primarily by C-tactile (CT) afferents in hairy skin and plays a fundamental role in social bonding, emotional communication, and…
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