{"title":"Intrinsic interdisciplinary nature of mediated social touch research","authors":"Giulia Barbareschi, Sakura Yamamura","doi":"10.1038/s44287-025-00185-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"As digitalization permeates societal interactions to connect people over physical distances, mediated social touch (haptics in human-to-human interaction) remains overlooked despite its high potential in times of social divides and mobility. Disciplinary silos must be broken, and an intercultural approach is needed to integrate touch into digital global societies.","PeriodicalId":501701,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","volume":"2 8","pages":"517-518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44287-025-00185-3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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As digitalization permeates societal interactions to connect people over physical distances, mediated social touch (haptics in human-to-human interaction) remains overlooked despite its high potential in times of social divides and mobility. Disciplinary silos must be broken, and an intercultural approach is needed to integrate touch into digital global societies.