Hold tight: How human and robotic touch shape our fear responseDoes holding someone’s hand really help when you are watching a scary movie? During a festival (Lowlands) last summer, Professor Jan van Erp and PhD candidate Marie-Laure Snijders from the Human Media Interaction department collaborated on an innovative study examining the relationship between social touch and physiological responses to fear and stress. Organised by the Dutch Touch Society, a collaborative research group comprising multiple Dutch universities and research institutions, the “Hold Tight” experiment provided a unique opportunity to investigate how human and robotic physical contact affects the stress levels of a large group of festival visitors.Read more
Climate-resilient cities can start with schoolyardsCities across Europe are getting hotter, and schools are among the places where heat stress is rising fastest. Many urban schoolyards are still dominated by concrete and asphalt, offering little shade or cooling. In a new Nature Climate Change paper, UT researcher Diana Reckien and colleagues show that greening school environments can become a starting point for climate-resilient cities.Read more
Hold tight: How human and robotic touch shape our fear response
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Pioneers in Healthcare Award ceremony 2025
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Two UT projects receive Perspectief grant
