Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Touching a Cat Without Touch: Does Mid-Air Ultrasound Haptic Feedback Promote Relaxation in Virtual Cat Interaction?

  Juro Hosoi, Yuki Ban, Shin'ichi Warisawa (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Hosoi and colleagues investigate whether mid-air ultrasound haptics — tactile sensations produced by focused acoustic radiation pressure, with no device worn on the user's skin — can convey the feel of a virtual cat convincingly enough to support rel…

  • mid-air haptics
  • ultrasound haptics
  • virtual reality
  • haptic feedback
  • human-animal interaction
  • relaxation
  • affective computing
  • non-contact interaction
  • multimodal interaction
  • sensory substitution