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Project name Tap Tap
Organisation
Persons L.Bonanni, J.Lieberman, C.Vaucelle, O.Zuckerman
City Cambridge
Country (USA)
Period 2005
URL http://web.media.mit.edu/~amerigo/taptap.html
Tags wearable system, project, record, distribute, affectionate touch, emotional therapy, scarf, haptic devices, useful accessory, felt, haptic modules, record sensations, microcontroller circuit, metal snaps, touch memory, sex, sizing, height, shoe size, coloring, student, MIT Media Lab, interaction design,
Text TapTap is a wearable haptic system that allows nurturing human touch to be recorded, broadcast and played back for emotional therapy. Haptic input/output modules in a convenient modular scarf provide affectionate touch that can be personalized. We present a working prototype informed by a pilot study.