Info & objectives

Objectives for the Festival of Touch:

We wish to organise an all-inclusive, open, environmentally-friendly meeting to bring together researchers in the field of touch.

• Inclusivity: we will invite touch researchers from all over the world to participate and we encourage all levels to contribute, from students to established researchers.
• Openness: we want to spread the message of touch far and wide and the conference will be open to all people interested in touch, where we will encourage industrial participation.
• Environment: we will encourage travel with lower environmental impact. We will hold some of the presentations via visual conferencing. We will also use less meat in the catering, use biodegradable items, and decrease plastic use.

 We have specific research objectives for the meeting:

• We wish to present cutting-edge research in touch and encourage discussion.
• The main theme of the Festival of Touch will be how fundamental touch mechanisms are encoded and interpreted, with a goal of making touch feel better.
• We will link the two joint conferences together by having symposia that span general touch research and affective touch, to increase interactions and discussions amongst researchers.
  
  

Main organizers:

Rochelle Ackerley (CNRS - Aix-Marseille University, France), Francis McGlone (University of Liverpool, UK), Nick Holmes (University of Birmingham, UK)