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The senses of touch : haptics, affects and technologies

Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. This work examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. It examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies.

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  • "Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. This work examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. It examines the role of touch across a range of experiences including aesthetics, digital design, visual impairment and touch therapies."@en
  • "Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Not merely immediate skin sensation, touching and feeling are inextricably woven into embodied experiences that are emotional and expressive, personal and interpersonal, and mediated through technologies. Examining the role of touch in art, memory, digital design, developmental psychology, experiences of visual impairment, and tactile therapies, The Senses of Touch demonstrates the varieties of sensory experience, and explores the diverse range of our "senses" of touch."
  • "Touch is the first sense to develop in the womb, yet often it is overlooked. The Senses of Touch examines the role of touching and feeling as part of the fabric of everyday, embodied experience. How can we think about touch? Problems of touch and tactility run as a continuous thread in philosophy, psychology, medical writing and representations in art, from Ancient Greece to the present day. Picking through some of these threads, the book ''feels'' its way towards writing and thinking about touch as both sensory and affective experience. Taking a broadly phenomenological framework that traces."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"

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  • "The senses of touch : haptics, affects and technologies"
  • "The senses of touch : haptics, affects and technologies"@en
  • "The senses of touch haptics, affects, and technologies"
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  • "The senses of touch : haptics, affects, and technologies"
  • "Senses of touch : haptics, affects and technologies : senses and sensibilities"

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