A Study of Hard and Soft Hand Touch in the Grip Relieve Stress Effect

• Main Authors: Chao, Li-Chun, 趙莉郡
• Other Authors: 楊炫叡
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54772128156656188189

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 圖文傳播藝術學系 === 98 === The purpose of the study was to explore the grip to different hardness, size dimensions, and shapes when the degree of relaxation produced feel. The State- Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) is used as the purpose to tell their status of pressure, and then the physiological feedback is used to keep records of their Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) and Skin temperature response data. There are three class groups’ experimental samples: one, six different hardness, the same size of the spherical sample; second, the same degree of hardness, 3cm, 5.5cm, 8cm three spherical sample size; third, four kinds of shape (spherical, cylinder, cone < tip up and down >),and samples of the same degree of hardness. The experiment is to adopt "counterbalanced design", each participant must be tested for three times, depending on the different types of groups to grip samples, so that the result counteracting with the effects can be achieved. From experimental results and analysis of its Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) and Skin temperature data analysis revealed that: (A) six kinds of hardness in the relaxing effect of the sequence number is the 1st ball (HS-D 5), the 3rd ball (HS-D 23), the 2nd ball (HS-D 14), the 4th ball (HS-D 32), the 6th ball (HS-D 50), and the 5th ball (HS-D 41). (B) When low hardness (HS-D 5), the relaxing effect of better size diameter 5.5cm, in high hardness (HS D41) is 3cm more relaxing. To show the size of soft and hard is inversely proportional to the relaxation effect. (C) Shapes: In the same degree of hardness (HS-D 23), the Cone (tip down) most relaxation effect, followed by sphere, cylinder, and finally for the cone (tip up). Because the cone tip in a different direction will produce different relaxation results. The result of this study revealed that grip in different hardness, size dimensions, and shape could bring different physiological responses, and discovered the soft and hard hand touch may produce the relaxation results. Achievement of the research can be used as relieve stress and other soothing product development for reference.