Social touch in virtual reality

Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments

Mel Slater · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2009 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +15

The PHANToM Haptic Interface: A Device for Probing Virtual Objects

Thomas Massie, J. Kenneth Salisbury · 1994 · 1.3K citations

Engineering, Robotics Engineering, Human-robot Interaction +16

Why and how to use virtual reality to study human social interaction: The challenges of exploring a new research landscape

Xueni Pan, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton · British Journal of Psychology · 2018 · 720 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +10

UltraHaptics

Tom Carter, Sue Ann Seah, Benjamin Long et al. · 2013 · 491 citations · Full text

Computing, Visualization, Interaction Design +16

Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch

Valeria Gazzola, Michael Spezio, Joset A. Etzel et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 338 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology +17