My PhD is about how we perceive and relate to technologies that mediate our daily life interaction. I am especially interested in wearable haptic technologies and the subjective aspects of their use.
Recently we have seen popularisation in the use of haptic feedback and gesture-based interaction in consumer electronics. Also, advances in sensor technology and Virtual Reality introduced artefacts that aim to reproduce how we touch in real life. Understanding how we perceive and make sense of digital touch is critical to developing and analysing this type of technology.