A calming hug: Design and validation of a tactile aid to ease anxiety

• Alice C. Haynes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: alice.haynes@bristol.ac.uk

  ¶‡ACH, JMR and CK are primary authors of this work. ACH, AL and JMR authors developed the prototypes and hardware for this study. JLF and CK authors were primary supervisors for the experiment in this study.

  Affiliations Engineering Mathematics Department, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Soft Robotics Group, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2146-6902

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• Annie Lywood ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  ¶‡ACH, JMR and CK are primary authors of this work. ACH, AL and JMR authors developed the prototypes and hardware for this study. JLF and CK authors were primary supervisors for the experiment in this study.

  Affiliation Bonnie Binary Ltd, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Emily M. Crowe,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8265-7791

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• Jessica L. Fielding ,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ACH, JMR and CK are primary authors of this work. ACH, AL and JMR authors developed the prototypes and hardware for this study. JLF and CK authors were primary supervisors for the experiment in this study.

  Affiliation School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0950-4788

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• Jonathan M. Rossiter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ACH, JMR and CK are primary authors of this work. ACH, AL and JMR authors developed the prototypes and hardware for this study. JLF and CK authors were primary supervisors for the experiment in this study.

  Affiliations Engineering Mathematics Department, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, Soft Robotics Group, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Christopher Kent

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ACH, JMR and CK are primary authors of this work. ACH, AL and JMR authors developed the prototypes and hardware for this study. JLF and CK authors were primary supervisors for the experiment in this study.

  Affiliation School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

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