Publications
The role of touch in children’s engagement with nature: implications for design. Andrew Manches, Jonathan Hancock, Laura Colucci-Gray, and Advaith Siddharthan. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, pp. 68-82. ACM, 2026.
Bowers, L. J., Sharma, N., Hancock, J. et al. (2026). Sensing Nature: A School-ground Haptic Map and Tactile Garden for Texture Exploration. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1289–1292. https://doi.org/10.1145/3773077.3813768
Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., Manches, A., Mozier, S., Lakeman-Fraser, P., Newman, J., Dodd, M., Ansine, J., Bower L., Islam R., Rueger S., Siddharthan, A. (2025). ‘To touch is to know’: haptic inquiry for primary school citizen science. International Journal of Science Education, Part B, 15(3), 360–376. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2025.2496428
Colucci-Gray, L., Hancock, J., & Manches, A. (2024). Researching the role of touch in children’s science education. In M. Sardag, G. Kaya, & M. Sogut (Eds.), Connecting Science Education with Cultural Heritage: Proceedings of the ESERA 2023 Conference (1st ed., pp. 144-157). European Science Education Research Association.
Researchers to test haptic tech in education. UKAuthorITy: Digital, Data and Technology for the Public Good (2021).
Open University Inaugural Lecture – Professor Advaith Siddharthan presents: How Society Ought To Engage With Nature, Science, and Technology
