Mark Paterson

I have an interest in the history and science of bodily sensation, and technologies of the senses. I am author 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), How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), and most recently Affective Touching: Neurobiology and Technological Applications (Cambridge University Press, 2025). I am on the Editorial Board of the journals The Senses and Society (since 2008), Emotion, Space and Society (2014-2024), and Multimodality & Society (since 2021). Current research is also concerned with the role of design and the ‘engineered imaginary’ of robot embodiments and human-robot interactions.