It’s Touching: Understanding Touch-Affect Association in Shape-Change with Kinematic Features

Feng Feng, Dan Bennett, Zhi-jun Fan & Oussama Metatla. 2022.

CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

With the proliferation of shape-change research in affective computing, there is a need to deepen understandings of affective responses to shape-change display. Little research has focused on affective reactions to tactile experiences in shape-change, particularly in the absence of visual information. It is also rare to study response to the shape-change as it unfolds, isolated from a final shape-change outcome. We report on two studies on touch-affect associations, using the crossmodal “Bouba-Kiki” paradigm, to understand affective responses to shape-change as it unfolds. We investigate experiences with a shape-change gadget, as it moves between rounded (“Bouba”) and spiky (“Kiki”) forms. We capture affective responses via the circumplex model, and use a motion analysis approach to understand the certainty of these responses. We find that touch-affect associations are influenced by both the size and the frequency of the shape-change and may be modality-dependent, and that certainty in affective associations is influenced by association-consistency.

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Citation

Feng, F., Bennett, D., Fan, Z.-j., & Metatla, O. (2022 , April). It’s Touching: Understanding Touch-Affect Association in Shape-Change with Kinematic Features. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1–18). New Orleans LA USA: ACM. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3502003, doi:10.1145/3491102.3502003

BibTeX

@inproceedings{feng_its_2022, address = {New Orleans LA USA}, title = {It’s {Touching}: {Understanding} {Touch}-{Affect} {Association} in {Shape}-{Change} with {Kinematic} {Features}}, isbn = {978-1-4503-9157-3}, shorttitle = {It’s {Touching}}, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3502003}, doi = {10.1145/3491102.3502003}, language = {en}, urldate = {2023-07-19}, booktitle = {{CHI} {Conference} on {Human} {Factors} in {Computing} {Systems}}, publisher = {ACM}, author = {Feng, Feng and Bennett, Dan and Fan, Zhi-jun and Metatla, Oussama}, month = apr, year = {2022}, pages = {1--18}, }