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Workshops and tutorials

The tutorials and workshop program is offered in parallel tracks on Sunday, February 23. For exact timing, see the full technical program.

Afternoon sessions

Haptic rendering of textures

Tutorial

This half-day Sunday afternoon (February 23, 2014) tutorial will overview the problem of haptic texture rendering and then carefully explain a new set of methods the presenters have developed for creating highly realistic haptic virtual textures. While some of the discussion will be relevant to bare-finger haptic interactions, we will focus on situations where the user touches the surface through a rigid tool, as shown in the image below.

Wearable haptics: from neurophysiology foundations to new wearable haptic designs and exoskeletons

Open workshop

This half-day Sunday afternoon (Feb 23, 2014) workshop focuses on wearable haptics. Wearable haptics are becoming an attractive field of research, referring to devices that can be worn on own body to provide haptic feedback. This has several applications, from rehab and human power augmentation, to haptic interaction with digital contents.
One class of devices is based on a promising design principle of wearable haptic systems that  look at cutaneous perception and stimulation as a direct consequence of improved wearability in haptics.

Morning sessions

Surface haptics

Tutorial

Surface haptics is the creation and application of programmable haptic effects on physical surfaces such as touch screens and touch pads.  This tutorial has been designed for those who want an introduction to the existing and ongoing research in this field, those who want to learn the art of building friction-reduction devices (TPaDs), and those who want to engage in a discussion of where the field is headed.  Plenty of hardware will be on hand to inspire ideas and possibly even some real-time prototyping.  The tentative agenda is shown below, but we would like to tailor it

Artificial Softness: perception and design

Open workshop

This workshop will take place on Sunday morning (February 23, 2014). Softness is the subjective measure of the compressibility of an object. When an object is indented, various types of information are produced which carry information about the material properties and object composition. Whereas geometric properties of shape are best obtained from vision even without being in contact with the object, sensory information about material properties are prevalently obtained with active object indentation.

Full Day sessions

Brain Computer Interfaces & Haptics

Tutorial

This tutorial will take place all day on Sunday, February 23, 2014. Brain computer interfaces offer a great opportunity to haptics researchers to investigate neural correlates of movement and to develop novel paradigms for brain control of robotic and haptic devices, in particular in the field of neuromotor rehabilitation.