TY - GEN
T1 - Therapeutic touch
T2 - 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020
AU - Goncu-Berk, Gozde
AU - Halsted, Tara
AU - Zhang, Ruoyu
AU - Pan, Tingrui
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is funded by UC Davis Academic Senate, Interdisciplinary Research Grant.
PY - 2020/5/18
Y1 - 2020/5/18
N2 - The emotional and physical health benefits that come by being touched in safe ways are well established. Therapeutic touch has been used for conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder and Dementia as a calming agent. Smart clothing and textiles have the potential to not only sense, monitor and collect data (inputs) but also to act on the body with embedded actuation capabilities (outputs) such as promoting mechanical, electrical and thermal tactile stimuli. Thus far, the emphasis in the design of wearables, including smart clothing, has been on inputs, with comparatively little research on the responsive output capabilities. This research presents design requirements for development of a user-friendly wearable product for compression therapy and reports development of a reactive undershirt with embedded textile-based pneumatic actuators that deliver tactile stimulation in response to change in emotional state to calm anxiety. The proposed design can offer novel ways of complementing care to empower people with dementia in everyday situations because of its ubiquitous nature and its affordance.
AB - The emotional and physical health benefits that come by being touched in safe ways are well established. Therapeutic touch has been used for conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Sensory Processing Disorder and Dementia as a calming agent. Smart clothing and textiles have the potential to not only sense, monitor and collect data (inputs) but also to act on the body with embedded actuation capabilities (outputs) such as promoting mechanical, electrical and thermal tactile stimuli. Thus far, the emphasis in the design of wearables, including smart clothing, has been on inputs, with comparatively little research on the responsive output capabilities. This research presents design requirements for development of a user-friendly wearable product for compression therapy and reports development of a reactive undershirt with embedded textile-based pneumatic actuators that deliver tactile stimulation in response to change in emotional state to calm anxiety. The proposed design can offer novel ways of complementing care to empower people with dementia in everyday situations because of its ubiquitous nature and its affordance.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Compression
KW - Pneumatic
KW - Smart Clothing
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U2 - 10.1145/3421937.3421962
DO - 10.1145/3421937.3421962
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85100741046
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 239
EP - 242
BT - Proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 6 October 2020 through 8 October 2020
ER -