Mark Paterson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He has an interest in the history and science of bodily sensation, blindness, and technologies of the senses. Along with articles published in humanities and social science journals, he is author of books including The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (2007), Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016), and co-editor of Touching Place, Spacing Touch (2012). How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press (Autumn 2021). His current research is concerned with the role of embodiment in the histories of human-robot interactions.