An Experiment on the Influence of Haptic Communication on the Sense of Being Together

The experiment concerns a scenario where two or more people are at remote sites, but must co-operate to perform a joint task or play a game in a shared VE. In the current experiment, the set-up is an abstraction from a real situation, in order to simplify the interactions that occur in real life and to create a more controlled context suitable for an experimental study in the laboratory. We focus mainly on the impact of haptic display on the perceived quality of the interaction itself.