Observing being touched enhances the neural processing and perception of digital gentle stroking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688063v1

Perception of affective stroking is influenced by observing yourself being touched - and these processes differ from non-affective tapping: visual modulation of pleasantness correlates with processing differences between stroking and tapping in frontal clusters.

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

#TactileInternet needs to consider human #perception and sensory integration. Thus Prof. Shu-Chen Li and I shared our research on (digitized) #multisensory-integration with doctoral candidates at the 2nd TOAST training school at TU Munich.
Candidates also tried our demo on #social-touch in VR 👓