Abstract
AbstractIn this article, we present TouchYou, a pair of wearable interfaces that enable affective touch interactions with people at long-distance. Through a touch-sensitive interface, which works by touch, pressure and capacitance, the body becomes the own input for stimulating the other body, which has a stimulation interface that enables the feeling of being touched. The person receives an electrical muscle stimulation, thermal and mechanical stimulation that react depending on the touch sensed by the first interface. By using the TouchYou, people can stimulate each other, using their own body, not only for sexual relations at a distance but for the production of affection and another way of feeling. We discuss the importance of the touch for human relationships, the current state of the art in haptic interfaces and how the technology can be used for the affection remote transmission. We present the design process of the TouchYou sensitive and stimulation interfaces, with a contribution of a method for developing custom touch sensors, we explore usage scenarios for the technology, including sex toys and sex robots and we present the concept of using the body as a remote sex interface.
Highlights
One of the main benefits of developing technology is to improve one or more aspects of the human life
After choosing the dimensions and creating the pattern, we developed the sensor matrix by using an adapted method of building homemade printed circuit boards (PCBs), which is known as PCB tone transfer [28]
This work presented the TouchYou, which is a pair of touch-sensitive and touch-stimulation interfaces for detecting the touch and simulating it to a long-distance
Summary
One of the main benefits of developing technology is to improve one or more aspects of the human life. The TouchYou interface was developed with the aim of applying haptic sensing and stimulation technologies for reducing the problem of the lack of physical interaction between couples and relatives living apart. We developed a pair of sensing and stimulation interfaces that are portable, wearable and can communicate wirelessly with computers and smartphones for enabling the transmission of the touch over the Internet. The stimulation interface is based on three different technologies: electrical muscle stimulator, thermal and mechanical stimulation, by using vibration motors. This interface can simulate the touch by changing the conducting electrodes and the individually activating the vibration motors and flexible heaters. We explored the usage of the TouchYou interfaces for sexual purposes, by presenting the concept of using our own body as a remote sex interface and by showing how the haptic technology can be applied to the sex toy and sex robot industry, creating more sophisticated products
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