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Researchers and developers working in haptics have frequent needs to evaluate their haptic systems (or components) in terms of the user’s perception. This requirement is natural since haptics is essentially about interface to and interaction with users. However, appropriate perceptual evaluation is not a trivial task, and haptics researchers and developers sometimes have difficulty in the proper design and data analysis of perceptual experiments, which have the root in cognitive psychology. In this tutorial, we aim to help haptics researchers and developers, mostly with engineering and computer science background, better understand and use experimental methods for the perceptual evaluation of haptic systems by introducing experimental methods that are frequently used for that purpose.
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Objective:This workshop will discuss how we feel force, and try to design comfortable weight. It is composed of lectures, and a hands-on experience program of making various products. Through this workshop, we expect that the participants will be interested in what comfortable weight is, understand the applicability and potentiality of comfortable weight, and have an idea for basic researches of comfort perception and applications into industrial products.
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Our workshop gives broader impacts for participants. As stated above, understanding the weight feeling is important not only for raising proper questions in haptics research but also for applying this knowledge into consumer product design in manufacturing. We handle both of these topics at the same time and provide participants with comprehensive understanding of weight feeling. Proposed workshop is the best opportunity for learning the outcome of basic research on the weight perception in short time.
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We would like to invite you to join Haptic cultural tour in Tokyo area. This tour will visit two commercial spots (fine towel and paper vendors) that handle haptic products. In the lunch time, we will bring you a traditional, classic Japanese restaurant to enjoy beef pot lunch there.
The deadline for the participation will be November 20th. The cost of participation will be 6,500 yen including transportation. Once you apply for the tour, the organizer will contact with you about the payment method.
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