Regardless of the endless technology touch points, some digital consumers still believe in the human touch.
The human touch is certainly important if you have high-value content, such as marketing messages.
While some people may always want the human touch, I prefer advice and management without having to deal with a human advisor.
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Here was a complex problem: how to reconcile Britain's traditional gift for formal ceremony with the modern desire for the human touch.
When they realize that the computer is actually enhancing customer service and lets them add the human touch, they will change their minds.
Habitually deleting blatantly commercial messages from our inboxes and chucking print ads that get stuffed into our snail mailboxes, we undeniably remain suckers for the human touch.
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So as Election Day draws closer and the political tactics get dirtier, perhaps showing a little guilt could be the human touch that gets the voting public on side.
"What I really feel very strongly about, and I hope reflects in all aspects of my work, is the human touch, the humanness of things, the positive and sometimes the negative and sometimes the sad, " Christenberry says.
Oppenheimer's directorship of Los Alamos required both the scientific skills to understand every aspect of the bomb's design and the human touch necessary to manage the thousands of scientists and engineers living, in total secrecy, atop an isolated mesa in the wilds of New Mexico.
Often the service professional is the only human touch point to the customer.
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Weber's God remained aloof whereas the Pentecostals' God reaches down to touch the human heart.
The human need for touch, love, pleasure and company do not diminish with age.
In fact, the Borg Queen had tempted Data, by granting the android the sensation of human touch.
As part of its commitment to have zero environmental impact, the entire camp is dismantled at the end of each season, leaving behind no trace of human touch among the vast glacier landscape.
They are emphasizing the sport's human touch over videogames and smartphone apps.
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So, how does a small business maintain a competitive advantage in the face of pressure from high tech innovation and the primordial human desire for high touch connection?
The ability to have constant, portable access to all the information complied by human beings over all of our known existence at the touch of a button, while watching squirrels dance on YouTube.
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Throughout history, human beings have invented representational systems writing, music notation, double-entry bookkeeping to grasp with the mind what human hands could never touch.
In other words, you're looking at a future in which robotic hands interpret the nuances of a surface or gripped object akin to a human fingertip and artificial skin senses touch similar to the way tiny hairs on an arm do.
The innovative process needs to touch every dimension of the company, from marketing and finance to human resources and customer engagement.
But what if technology just knew how the human body moved, how the human voice worked, and could react accordingly -- without people having to touch a gadget?
Touch is not intuitive, because in fifty million years of human evolution, we do not touch each other and in the US, it's politically incorrect.
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We touch all areas of the business including marketing, product management, business development, human resources, operations, finance and sales.
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The touch-sensitive transistors - dubbed taxels - have a sensitivity comparable to that of a human fingertip.
In fact, the world champion complained that IBM had cheated, that no machine could play with such a deft human touch.
"As the stretch to reach all areas of the screen increases, we might start to see more serious repetitive stress injuries likely to the thumbs in larger touch-screen devices, " says Anthony Andre, a professor of human factors and ergonomics at San Jose State University.
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