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Ville Johannes Harjunen
Researcher at University of Helsinki
Publications - 20
Citations - 272
Ville Johannes Harjunen is an academic researcher from University of Helsinki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emotional expression & Facial expression. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 17 publications receiving 138 citations. Previous affiliations of Ville Johannes Harjunen include Helsinki Institute for Information Technology & Aalto University.
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Feeling Touched: Emotional Modulation of Somatosensory Potentials to Interpersonal Touch.
Niklas Ravaja,Niklas Ravaja,Niklas Ravaja,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Imtiaj Ahmed,Giulio Jacucci,Michiel M. Spapé +7 more
TL;DR: The findings show that not only does touch affect emotion, but also emotional expressions affect touch perception, and the affective modulation of touch was initially obtained as early as 25 ms after the touch onset suggesting that emotional context is integrated to the tactile sensation at a very early stage.
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Reach out and touch me: effects of four distinct haptic technologies on affective touch in virtual reality
Imtiaj Ahmed,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Giulio Jacucci,Eve Hoggan,Niklas Ravaja,Michiel M. Spapé +5 more
TL;DR: Measurements of user experience during a communication scenario featuring an affective agent and interpersonal touch in virtual reality revealed that, regardless of the agent’s expression, force feedback actuators were rated as more natural and resulted in greater emotional interdependence and a stronger sense of co-presence than vibrotactile touch.
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Individual differences in affective touch: Behavioral inhibition and gender define how an interpersonal touch is perceived
Ville Johannes Harjunen,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Michiel M. Spapé,Imtiaj Ahmed,Imtiaj Ahmed,Giulio Jacucci,Giulio Jacucci,Niklas Ravaja,Niklas Ravaja +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a virtual reality experiment was conducted to investigate whether individual differences regarding behavioral inhibition system (BIS) and gender contribute to this affective touch perception, and the results indicated that individual differences that are related to preferences regarding tactile communication also determine how touch is perceived.
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Evoking Physiological Synchrony and Empathy Using Social VR with Biofeedback
Mikko Salminen,Simo Järvelä,Antti Ruonala,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Giulio Jacucci,Juho Hamari,Niklas Ravaja +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether and how individual and interpersonally shared biofeedback (visualised respiration rate and frontal asymmetry of electroencephalography, EEG) enhance synchrony between the users' physiological activity and perceived empathy towards the other during a compassion meditation exercise carried out in a social VR setting.
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Persuaded by the machine : The effect of virtual nonverbal cues and individual differences on compliance in economic bargaining
Ville Johannes Harjunen,Ville Johannes Harjunen,Michiel M. Spapé,Imtiaj Ahmed,Giulio Jacucci,Niklas Ravaja,Niklas Ravaja +6 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that virtual nonverbal behaviors of virtual agents increase compliance and that there is substantial interindividual variation in proneness to persuasion.