Gallery

It’s All Academic Festival, October 2019

. Fieldwork with Loughborough University MA UX Design students on the Designing Digital Touch toolkit. Image credit: IN-TOUCH

David Parisi, author of ‘Archaeologies of Touch’ on the production of desire for new haptic technologies at our Haptic Media Studies Symposium, July 2019. Image credit: IN-TOUCH

Designing Digital Touch toolkit ‘Pre-Discover’ stage cards. Image credit: IN-TOUCH

Mark Paterson, author of ‘The Senses of Touch’, discusses the use of ethnographic video methods to engage with sensory impressions of place and space at our Haptic Media Studies Symposium, July 2019. Image credit: IN-TOUCH

‘Neo Touch’ – a speculative brain-computer interface design by Christine Wuerth. Image credit: Christine Wuerth

Sophie Breuckner’s speculative ‘Empathy Box’, inspired by the Empathy Box of Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ which connects lonely strangers through shared warmth. Image credit: Sophie Breuckner

‘Footsie Slippers’, haptic footwear designed to help minimise long distance loneliness, by Emilie B. Cohrt. Read her blog post here. Image credit: Emilie B. Cohrt

Cuddle workshops. Image credit: still from ‘London 360 Cuddle Workshop’ by Cuddle Nation

Sci-fi artist Lucy McRae’s highly dystopian ‘Compression Cradle’ speculates on a world where too much technology makes us lonely and touch deficient. Her antidote is the tactile Cradle machine, which vacuums air around the body to encase & hold it tight. Image credit: Daria Scagliola