Gender-Impression Modification Enhances the Effect of Mediated Social Touch Between Persons of the Same Gender
| Autor: | Yuki Kionshita, Tomohiro Yamada, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Sho Sakurai, Suzuki Keita, Masanori Yokoyama, Michitaka Hirose, Takuji Narumi, Mochizuki Takayoshi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Telemedicine
Remote communication business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Engineering 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Boredom Crowdsourcing 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) Impression Feeling 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social touch medicine.symptom Psychology business Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Augmented Human Research. 1 |
| ISSN: | 2365-4325 2365-4317 |
| Popis: | The main contribution of this study is realization of a method that enhances the effect of touch in remote communication between persons of the same gender by changing the gender impression with a voice changer during telecommunication. Although psychological studies have revealed that touch has various positive effects such as triggering altruistic behavior and persuading others, these effects are restrained in some cases, especially in same-gender communication, because a touch between persons of the same gender tends to cause unpleasant feelings. However, “Transcendent Telepresence,” which enhances positive psychological effects and suppresses negative effects by modifying the information transmitted via telecommunication, enables us to overcome this problem. We hypothesized that telepresence that modifies people’s gender impression reduces this unpleasantness and enhances the effect of touch. We tested the effectiveness of this method in a situation in which a male operator asked male participants to perform a monotonous task. The results showed that a touch by a male operator whose voice was changed to female-like could reduce the boredom of the task and improve the friendliness toward the operator. We believe this method realizes effective communication in various fields including telemedicine, crowdsourcing, and remote education. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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