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Social-Haptic Communication

History, Research and Applications

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Abstract

This essay focuses on the origin of the social-haptic communication (SHC) from early 1990’s to the present day, research and applications during the past 30 years. SHC includes a glossary of various haptices that are organised into sub-groups. These vocabularies of haptices have been analysed. Each haptice consists of haptemes, the grammar elements of SHC. SHC can be used with acquired and congenitally deafblind people in different parts of the body. Lahtinen (2008) defined haptices as touch messages that allow two or more people to interact and share their experiences of the visual, auditory and haptic world holisticly and systematicly.


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Submitted: March 20, 2025 | Accepted: Sept. 8, 2025 | Published Feb. 2, 2026 | Language: en

Keywords Social-haptic communication • Deafblindness • Haptic • Hapteme • Haptice • To haptier

Copyright © 2026 Riitta Lahtinen, Russ Palmer. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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