Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire psychologist leading the study, said: "One of the most important differences involved touching.
Duration, location and contact frequency with the contacted person, determined mainly whether or not a contact involved touching.
It was strangely gripping; without involving touch, Ms. de Chaillé created a heightened sense of awareness between two bodies.
Acupuncture has many qualities that maximise placebo effects: it involves touch and is invasive and, psychologically, is attached to the mysticism of the east".
Mr Nocera said: "Our work suggests greetings involving touch, such as handshakes and cheek kisses, may have critical influences on our social interactions in an unconscious fashion".
"So far the model seems to be the Android solution is particularly optimized for things that involve touch in some form and Chrome OS appears to be for keyboard-based solutions".
He also noted that the OS was orientated towards netbooks rather than devices that "involve touch".
Amedi agrees that training is key, but thinks that it should involve touch and sound, too senses that blind people rely on to navigate the world.
FTEs can be applied to many optoelectronic devices as conductive components, involving touch screens [5, 6], portable solar cells [7, 8], organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) [9 11], fuel cell electrode [12 17], sensors [18, 19], PM filter [20], transparent heaters [21, 22], and wearable electronics [23, 24].
She has overseen more than 60 studies involving touch devices.
