Sara Price

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Sara Price is a leading scholar at the intersection of digital communication, human-robot interaction, and sensory studies, with a particular focus on the role of touch. Her research fundamentally reshapes our understanding of how tactile experiences mediate social interaction, both between humans and between humans and machines. Price’s major contributions include pioneering ethnographic work on industrial robotics, where she demonstrates how touch operates as a critical mode of sensing and communication within evolving labor processes. Her 2020 paper on this topic, with 7 citations, is foundational for understanding the "second wave" of industrial robots. She also co-edited a landmark Special Issue on Digital Touch (2022, 6 citations), which argues that we are at a tipping point where digital communication is moving beyond vision to include "ways of feeling." This work positions her as a key theorist of how emerging haptic technologies are reconfiguring interpersonal communicative capacity. Price’s research is notable for its interdisciplinary reach, bridging sociology, human-computer interaction, and design, and for its timely exploration of how digital touch technologies—from wearables to robotic systems—are transforming everyday life and work.