Asia Haptic 2016 will be held on Nov.29-Dec.1, 2016 in Kashiwanoha, Japan.
The proceedings are now available online. (Updated on August 6, 2015)
Awards
Best demonstration:
Saekwang Nam, Suntak Park, Sungryul Yun, Bong Je Park, Seung Koo Park, Mijeong Choi and Ki-Uk Kyung,
Highly Flexible and Transparent Skin-like Tactile Sensor.
Honorable mention:
Simon Gallo and Hannes Bleuler,
A Flexible PDMS-based Multimodal Pulse and Temperature Display.
Yasuaki Monnai, Keisuke Hasegawa, Masahiro Fujiwara, Kazuma Yoshino, Seki Inoue, and Hiroyuki Shinoda,
Adding Texture to Aerial Images Using Ultrasounds.
Taku Nakamura and Akio Yamamoto,
Built-in Capacitive Position Sensing for Multi-User Electrostatic Visuo-haptic display.
Sunghoon Yim, Seokhee Jeon, and Seungmoon Choi,
Normal and Tangential Force Decomposition and Augmentation Based on Contact Centroid.
Toshiki Kitazawa and Aki Yamamoto,
Rendering Different Sensations to Multiple Fingers in a Multi-Digit Softness Display: Pulsation and Distributed Softness.
Keisuke Hasegawa and Hiroyuki Shinoda,
Generating Vibrotactile Images on the Human Palms.
Yoshiyuki Yamashita, Hiroaki Yano and Hiroo Iwata,
Haptic Interface for Shape and Texture Recognition of Remote Objects by Using a Laser Range Finder.
Poeple's choice:
Saekwang Nam, Suntak Park, Sungryul Yun, Bong Je Park, Seung Koo Park, Mijeong Choi and Ki-Uk Kyung,
Highly Flexible and Transparent Skin-like Tactile Sensor.
News
20th Nov, 2014: Conference statics: 58 regular demos, 10 late-breaking demos, 3 company exhibitions,
1 workshop, 1 tutorial
210 attendees: Japan 182, Korea 15, Switzerland 3, China 2, Canada 2, USA 2, Australia 1, Germany 1, Netherlands 1, Singapore 1
27th Oct, 2014: The finalists for the best demo award from the conference will be featured in the first issue of IEEE Transactions on Haptics in 2015.
Welcome
AsiaHaptics is a new type of international conference for the haptics fields, featuring interactive presentations with demos. AsiaHaptics welcome for all attendees related to / interest in haptic hardware, human haptic perception, and other haptic applications, not only in Asia but around the world. AsiaHaptics will be held biannually to alternate the World Haptics Conference.
Date
The first conference, AsiaHaptics 2014, will take place November 18-20, 2014.
Venue
International Congress Center EPOCAL TSUKUBA in Tsukuba, Japan.