Junior Professorship in Social Affective Touch

Organisational unit: Junior professorship

Organisation profile

Chair Holder: Junior Professor Dr. Merle Fairhurst

Contact

TUD website: https://ceti.one/merle-fairhurst/

Parent units

Institute of Acoustics and Speech Communication

Fairhurst, Merle

merle.fairhurst@tu-dresden.de

Junior Professorship in Social Affective Touch - Academic Staff
Clusters of Excellence CeTI: Centre for Tactile Internet - Member

Person

Valori, Irene

Junior Professorship in Social Affective Touch - Academic Staff

Person

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Adolescents and the Development of Social Touch Preferences: The HandsOn Mobile App Reveals Gender Differences in Peer Interactions

Valori, I., Sun, W., Rieger, B. & Fairhurst, M. T., 1 Nov 2026, In: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 36, 6, e70335.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Research article › Contributed › peer-review

Observing positive and negative social touch triggers topographically distinct physical and emotional reactions in the body

Świdrak, J., Sun, W., Ekin, P. & Fairhurst, M. T., 1 Aug 2026, In: Scientific reports. 16, 1, 23721.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Research article › Contributed › peer-review

Interdisciplinary perspectives and current findings on the role of trust as a psychological mediator in human interaction with artificial intelligence: Editorial overview

Valori, I., Kraus, J. & Fairhurst, M. T., Jul 2026, In: Computers in human behavior. 180, 108957.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial (Lead article) › Contributed › peer-review

The Impact of Graviception on Human-Computer Interaction

Vanderdonckt, J., Lefevre, P., Vatavu, R. D., Attygalle, N. T., Bilius, L. B., Calvary, G. & Dupuy-Chessa, S. & 6 others, Fairhurst, M., Nilsson, T., Oppermann, L., Roselli, P., Saggio, G. & Swaen, V., 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Oliver, N., Shamma, D. A., Candello, H., Cesar, P., Lopes, P., Artizzu, V., Draxler, F., Lopez, G., Reinschluessel, A. V., Tong, X. & Toups Dugas, P. O. (eds.). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 658. (CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems).

Research output: Contribution to book/Conference proceedings/Anthology/Report › Conference contribution › Contributed › peer-review