Papers
CHI 97
Conference on Human Factors in
Computing systems
Atlanta, Georgia USA
22-27 March 1997
1997 ACM
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inTouch: A Medium for Haptic Interpersonal Communication
Scott Brave and Andrew Dahley
Tangible Media Group
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
{brave, andyd}@media.mit.edu

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.