The notion that it is possible to ‘see with the hands’, as Descartes once put it in Dioptrique (1637, see Paterson 2016), chimes with the popular imagination of the sense of touch as somehow enhanced in people with impaired vision. It is linked to centuries of philosophical debate and scientific research of how blind people… Continue reading Visual touch or sensing with the eyes
IN-TOUCH: DIGITAL TOUCH COMMUNICATION
Understanding the social character and societal impact of touch as it is digitally mediated – developing novel theory and methods
IN-TOUCH: DIGITAL TOUCH COMMUNICATION 