IN-TOUCH DIGITAL

Our attention is on touch as it is digitally mediated through haptic devices, wearables, robotics, virtual reality and other digital touch devices, systems and environments that go beyond the everyday touch screen. We are investigating digital touch interactions between people, between people and objects and ‘machines', and are interested in both face-to-face or co-located touch and remote touch at a distance... ‘IN-TOUCH: Digital Touch Communication' explores the social implications of digital touch technologies for communication. We aim to close the immense gap between technological development and social science understanding of digital touch... Touch matters. It's fundamental to how we experience and know ourselves, others and the world, and can be central to how we communicate. A new wave of sensory communication technologies is beginning to stretch the possibilities of how we ‘feel' the world around us and how, what, whom and when we touch. The emerging landscape.

Also known as: IN-TOUCH