Please consider supporting our lab run, in aid of MND Association & Sobell House Hospice. The MNDA supported my dad when he had motor neuron disease (by coincidence he was president of the MNDA for years) and Sobell House hospice looked after him when he was dying 💙 justgiving.com/team/Blakemore…

In Japan this week meeting academic & industry haptics researchers - today Junji Watanabe NTT広報室 introduced himself to me using Heartbeat Picnic a tool that gives the feel of another’s heart beating in the palm of the hand

In Tokyo this week & experiencing different haptic environments including Junji Watanabe's 'Vibrotactile phone' that enables remote communication using audio-visual and tactile sensations

Totally excited re our new paper -'Interactive skin through a social- sensory speculative lens' Ned Barker Universität Saarland Jürgen Steimle In Senses & Society Journal #senses #touch #speculative doi.org/10.1080/174589…

Join us this Thursday for our 1st #UCLKLtalks of 2023!! Very excited to have Dr Douglas Atkinson talk about his research on developing and digitising skilled #touch Make sure you register forms.office.com/Pages/Response… IN_TOUCH_UCL

Great to be at UCL Knowledge Lab hearing Atkinson talk on IN_TOUCH_UCL work around digital transitions in fashion and the place of touch researchers.arts.ac.uk/37-douglas-atk…

Got a multimodal paper or presentation-how about ICOM11?

Our latest paper is out 😊Feeling our way: methodological explorations on researching touch through uncertainty tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

played basketball for the 1st time in over 15 years yesterday. The ball felt alien in my hands -feeling/positioning/manipulating the ball to shoot or dribble is an intricate thing! With that fresh in mind I came across these prosthesis today mdpi.com/2673-1592/5/1/2 #OpenAccess

And a big congratulations to Douglas who is taking g up a new Readership (Associate Professor) position in Manchester from 1st April

This SI of The Senses and Society journal is part of @itdfproject and features essays by India Morrison, Mark Paterson, Carey Jewitt, Ned Barker , Maya Caspari , Margrit Shildrick, Anna Harris

So sorry to hear this very sad news - our sincere condolences to family & friends of Vincent - we are grateful for his enormous contribution to our field

In Touch PhD 'Loneliness, touch, and its digital mediation' by Lili Golmohammadi now available on UCL Discovery!

How will we live on other planets? This and more in Series 2 of our podcast series Together We Create: the complexities of living off-world; the issues surrounding E-scooters; children’s experience of social media and the social life of environmental data tinyurl.com/4ppykxd6

Carey Jewitt & Sara Price will be launching their new book 'Digital Touch' on the 10th of July as part of #20YearsKnowledgeLab celebrations Sign up below! ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/202… IN_TOUCH_UCL #UCLKLtalks

Thanks for recognizing our work😊

Carey Jewitt - delighted to be one the 86 new British Academy Fellows

What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense of connection? How might we establish trust or protect our privacy/safety? Part of Economic and Social Research Council Festival of Social Science tinyurl.com/mrxhw7en UCL Knowledge Lab IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Economic and Social Research Council