Accepted IMWUT Paper

📢 We at #TECO are excited that our latest work, “Affective Wearable Haptic Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review,” first-authored by Jueun Lee, has been published in #IMWUT.

As #wearable #haptics become increasingly present in everyday devices, we tackled the question of how touch-based #feedback can move beyond notification and interaction, and instead support affective well-being in subtle, low-effort ways. We systematically analyzed 83 articles to understand how wearable haptic interventions are currently being designed and evaluated across different affective goals, haptic modalities, body locations, and intervention mechanisms.

A key takeaway is that affective outcomes cannot be understood through a single design choice alone. Instead, haptic modality, body placement, and intervention mechanism jointly shape the experience, with particularly strong potential in embodied physiological regulation and interpersonal connection. This also highlights promising future directions, especially in multi-user and socially mediated haptic interactions.

Our work provides a structured foundation for researchers and designers working on the next generation of wearable systems that do not just sense our state but also shape it using wearable technology.

You can read the publication here:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/ejVQM8nm

Tobias Röddiger, Sarah Makarem, Till Riedel, Kai Kunze

#TECO #IMWUT #WearableTech #Haptics #AffectiveComputing #MentalWellbeing #Wearables #HCI #HumanComputerInteraction #UbiComp #Research