thigmotaxis

Mice can sense surfaces and air movements with their whiskers which are also used during thigmotaxis.

The title Thigmotactic refers to thigmotaxis, an instinctive reflex in response to physical touch, as mentioned in a passage from Ann Zwinger's The Mysterious Lands about a desert lizard with this property.

Presumably not even Gruber could have envisioned the results: Hundreds of people in a theater, simultaneously clicking their View-Masters as a soundtrack cues them to the next image in, for instance, a story called "Lucifugia Thigmotaxis."