TY - GEN
T1 - What appeals to human touch? Effects of tactual factors and predictability of textures on affinity to textures
AU - Nagano, Hikaru
AU - Okamoto, Shogo
AU - Yamada, Yoji
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - For reasons that have not yet been investigated, some textures appeal to human touch. We investigate the relationships between the physical and sensory factors, the predictability of textures, and their appeal to human touch. We conduct sensory evaluation of 24 artificial clay textures, and the results are analyzed using factor analysis. Experimental results identify five sensory factors. We reveal that 70-80% of the textures' appeal to human touch can be described on the basis of the sensory and physical factors. We propose two models involving the predictability of textures. These models, as well as models based on the sensory and physical factors, explain the affinity to textures.
AB - For reasons that have not yet been investigated, some textures appeal to human touch. We investigate the relationships between the physical and sensory factors, the predictability of textures, and their appeal to human touch. We conduct sensory evaluation of 24 artificial clay textures, and the results are analyzed using factor analysis. Experimental results identify five sensory factors. We reveal that 70-80% of the textures' appeal to human touch can be described on the basis of the sensory and physical factors. We propose two models involving the predictability of textures. These models, as well as models based on the sensory and physical factors, explain the affinity to textures.
KW - sensory evaluation
KW - textural dimension
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U2 - 10.1109/WHC.2011.5945486
DO - 10.1109/WHC.2011.5945486
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79961192905
SN - 9781457702976
T3 - 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2011
SP - 203
EP - 208
BT - 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2011
Y2 - 22 June 2011 through 24 June 2011
ER -