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inTouch: A Medium for Haptic Interpersonal Communication

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MIT Media Lab

March 22, 1997

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Brave, S and Dahley, A. "inTouch: A Medium for Haptic Interpersonal Communication." CHI '97 Extended Abstracts. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1120212.1120435

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for applying haptic feedback technology to interpersonal communication. We present the design of our prototype inTouch system which provides a physical link between users separated by distance.

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https://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/intouch/

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