Digital Social Touch Toolkit: a research tool for studying attitudes towards digital touch

We present the Digital Social Touch Toolkit, a research tool in development aimed at the systematic study of differences in attitudes regarding the ethics of digital social touch interactions. The toolkit consists of cards depicting digital touch interactions that participants should place on rating scales based on their attitude towards the scenario allowing for effective and efficient data gathering for quantitative research.

Keywords: Digital social touch · Haptic technology · Ethics · Cardbased