Scope
Haptics research has permeated many disciplines and application areas.
Earliest efforts focused on sensory substitution: stimulating the sense of touch to convey imagery or speech for individuals with visual and/or auditory impairments. With the advent of force-feedback devices, there have been renewed interests in using haptic interfaces in teleoperator systems and virtual environments.
The successful deployment of haptic interfaces requires continuing advances in hardware design, control, software algorithms, as well as our understanding of the human somatosensory system.
Priority areas include, but are by no means limited to:
- Devices & technology
- Tactile display and tactile sensing
- Haptic rendering
- Perception & psychophysics
- Neuroscience
- Haptic cognition
- Multimodal perception
- Sensory guided motor control
- Haptic Communication
- Applications in entertainment, medicine, rehabilitation, education, data perceptualization, art, rapid prototyping, remote collaboration, etc.