Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

Built around a performance of immense care and delicacy by Kathleen Chalfant, Sarah Friedland's debut feature is a precise, funny and deeply moving portrait of a woman adjusting to assisted living.

It could help make interactions between robots and humans smoother and more intuitive. Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch; you typically need a computer science degree or ...

Jeff Ewing is a critic, entertainment journalist, interviewer, and screenwriter in LA with a life-long love of horror and film history. He has an M.S. in Sociology from the University of Oregon, and a ...

Baltasar Kormákur's adaptation of Ólafur Ólafsson's novel joins a small, rarified group of great films made about the pandemic. It’s against this backdrop of uncertainty that Kristofer (Egill Ólafsson ...

Baltasar Kormakur directs the story of a widower with early-onset dementia who embarks on a cross-continental trip to find his soulmate during the pandemic in this weepie filled with humanity and hope ...

Thought experiment: What would life be like if you did not have a sense of touch? Our skin is our largest sense organ, constituting 16 to 18 percent of adult body weight, and we rely on it heavily in ...

Through a large-scale analysis, researchers have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person's physical and mental wellbeing. Through a large-scale analysis, researchers at the ...

Premature babies especially benefited from skin-to-skin contact, and women tended to respond more strongly than men did. By Joanne Silberner A hug, a handshake, a therapeutic massage. A newborn lying ...

Touch deprivation is a real problem. Here’s how to navigate it and protect your mental health. Touch starvation, also known as touch deprivation or “skin hunger,” refers to experiencing a chronic lack ...

The Touch Bar was meant to be the future of computing, but a lack of interest from developers and Apple itself turned it into a mere proof of concept. The Touch Bar was meant to be the future of ...