Haptic
Etymology
The term haptics was derived from Greek “haptikos”
focus on medical, technological and biological
applications of touch and closely connected with
proxemics as haptics and proxemics communicate
through space and territory. Haptic communication
differs around the world cultures, it is insignificant to
touch in Western and British cultures and frequent
among Italian and French.
Haptic communication is exclusively designed to
course the information quickly. Communicating
through non-verbal haptics involves handshake, pat,
kiss, slap, hug, massage, hit, kick, embrace, tickle etc.
Each touch communicates a unique message like fear,
disgust, love, encouragement, gratitude, sympathy,
anger, sex, pain, violence etc. Moreover, haptic
communication depends on environment and
interpretations such as on who, why, when and differs
with setting and purpose as professional, friendship,
guide, punishment, sympathy, arousal, attention,
greeting, seeking, etc.
Communication through touch is an essential part of
human social development. Haptic is either intentional
or unintentional leads towards either positive or
negative consequences. The sense of touch is the
effective, direct and intimate way of communication
starts from a fetus and helps to sense the world in and
around. It carries distinct emotions and the intensity of
its emotion may vary as good and bad touch. Non-
verbal haptic communication sends messages through
sensory nerves and receives messages through brain
sensors as it impacts the psychological stimulus.
Involuntarily and persistently both humans and
animals communicate with their environment through
touch, since it’s a basic and vital survival instinct for
them. Touch communicates emotions and feelings in a
physical form, creates physical intimacy, bonds,
rapport, comfort, and amplify.
Haptics is categorized into functional/professional,
social/polite, friendship/warmth, love/intimacy,
sexual/arousal. Significantly humans communicate
non-verbally, they send signs and emotions through
many forms which need understanding as touch is
critical for effective communication that could be
interpreted differently. Haptic communication is
correlated with kinesics (eye movement-gaze), where
adaptors in gestures are touching movements and
behaviours targeted towards self and others like
shaking legs, scratching, using mobile phones,
clearing throat, etc. Advantages of non-verbal
communication are a compliment, substitute,
attraction, express, helps physically challenged and
illiterate people. Disadvantages are vague, culture
bond, difficult to interpret, information distortion and
multi-channel.
When there happens no communication through touch,
humans feel abandoned and isolated since the basic
survival instinct of the six and five sense living
organisms is touch. Haptic communication connects
and intense in transmitting emotions like task-
orientation, ritual interaction, idiosyncratic
relationship, emotional attachment, and sexual intent.
These categories depend on the tolerance of an
individual and intense in sharing feelings as touch with
a hidden motive is strategic communication. Touch
communication which is an immense method could be
with high contact, low contact, and internal differences
result in positive and negative correlations. The ability
of the human to understand and respond to the haptic
communication helps them to decode the encoded
message.
Field Application
1. Touch communication is an effective and intimate
way to handle and nurture the children. Anything
communicated through touch would be more
effective compared with other forms of
communication as touch involves physical
attachment.
2. Haptic communication is applied with physically
challenged students, where they learn through
touch.
3. Haptic communication widely used in the field of AI
(Artificial Intelligence and Robotics sensor system),
This system supports the medical haptic methods in
surgical and other applications. In the
Entertainment industry, the emergence of haptic
methods and the haptic sensor provides adequate
support for computing and gaming.
What Is Chronemics?
Chronemics is the study of how time is used in communication.
Anthropologists focusing on chronemics look at cultural norms
regarding time and the way cultures vary and converge around
them. Chronemics branches out into other disciplines, too, such as
the study of organizational behavior.
Chronemics in Communication
Time is an important non-verbal cue that factors heavily into
communication, particularly in the world of business.
Chronemics in technology communication provides key insights for
management. For example, studies have taken large amounts of
aggregated email data from big companies and analyzed the level
and timing of responses. This research showed that the
organizational structure can be accurately predicted by creating a
hierarchy of responsiveness, placing the most responsive entities
at the bottom of the organization, and the least responsive entities
at the top.
The predictive power of these chronemic models could be used in
designing future communication technology to account for the
expected responsiveness of people who are communicating,
based on their positions in an organization.
Chronemics and Time Management
Chronemics also factors heavily in the world of time management.
Many technology solutions tackle time management in a uniform
way, but chronemics has shown that time outlooks vary widely
among cultures.
Many North American and Western cultures are considered to be
monochronic—that is, focused on the sequential completion of
tasks, in a structured and time-conscious way. However, other
cultures such as Latin American and Asian are considered
polychronic. These cultures are less focused on accounting for
individual measures of time and more focused on tradition,
relationships, and freedom.
