BIO

Caroline is currently a Transitional Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham. As a designer and researcher who works at the intersection of creative design, Human-Computer Interaction, soft robotics and haptics design, she is dedicated to driving a cross-disciplinary agenda towards robots and technology that touch better.  She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art UK in Information Experience Design. Prior to joining the University of Nottingham, she led a Digital Future Postdoc Fellowship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology that explores design guidelines for developing digital social touch that are capable of communicating social, affective and caring content. Her design work explores the emergent space of applying soft robotic caring touch in contexts including healthcare, mental health, intimate care, FemTech and automous driving. She was an awardee of the MedTech SuperConnector programme in the UK for translating soft robotic haptic technology into healthcare applications and a co-investigator in the Cancer Research UK-funded project ‘Improving care through soft robotic tactile intervention – towards a smarter compassionate experience in cancer treatment (SOFTLI)’ (2019-2021).

Contact

caroline[dot]zheng[at]nottingham.ac.uk