I am interested in the history and science of bodily sensation, and technologies of the senses. This has led to collaborations with designers, archaeologists, roboticists, physicists, geographers, and more. I have been involved in research projects on digital heritage, robotics, the human-computer interface, and human-robot interaction design.
Along with articles in social science, humanities, and engineering journals, I have written a number of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (Routledge, 2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (Edinburgh UP, 2016), and How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). I am co-editor of Touching Space, Placing Touch (Routledge, 2012), and of a special issue of ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction (2023), 'Designing the Robot Body: Critical Perspectives on Affective Embodied Interaction'. I am on the Editorial Board of the journals The Senses and Society (since 2008), Emotion, Space and Society (since 2014), and Multimodality & Society (since 2021).
My current research is concerned with the role of embodiment in the histories of human-robot interactions. For more, see http://sensory-motor.com.