Mark Paterson

Mark Paterson is Associate Professor 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 The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies (2007) and Seeing with the Hands: Blindness, Vision and Touch After Descartes (2016), and co-editor of Touching Space, Placing Touch (2013) and a special issue of ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction (in press) on affect and embodiment. His current research is concerned with the role of embodiment in the histories of human-robot interactions. His research website is sensory-motor.com