Workshop on Haptic Interaction Design M. Bordegoni, U. Cugini

1. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada Workshop on Haptic Interaction Design M. Bordegoni, U. Cugini Department of Mechanical Engineering monica.bordegoni@polimi.it

2. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada 01 WORKSHOP PRESENTATION

3. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada Haptic interaction design is that phase of product development where one designs the interaction with the product that occurs through touch and manual control. This activity includes the design of the physical interaction components and devices, as well as the design of the modalities for interacting with them, also including the integration with other modalities as vision and sound (crossmodal interaction). The kind of interaction depends on the product attributes and on its functionalities, and also on the target users of the product. For example, the design of haptic interaction devoted to skilled users requires the acquisition of knowledge about the users’ skills and dexterity, about the users’ objectives in using the product, so as to best exploit the ways these users are used to do things and to perform manual tasks. Alternatively, one can design products integrating haptic and touch as a novel interaction modality, which proposes users a new way of doing the usual things. Or one can even design a novel physical interaction that aims at creating new emotional and compelling experiences for the potential future users of the product. Therefore, the haptic interaction design requires various methods, tools and technologies that are enabled by multi-disciplinary expertise. 02

4. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada 02 PROGRAM

5. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada Program

6. Haptics Symposium March 4-7, 2012, Vancouver, Canada 03 SPEAKERS INFORMATION

7. Monica Bordegoni Department of Mechanical Engineering Politecnico di Milano – Italy e-mail: monica.bordegoni@polimi.it Title of the talk: Haptic Interaction Design based on User Experience Short bio Monica Bordegoni is full professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano since 2004, where she teaches "Virtual Prototyping" at the School of Industrial Design and at the School of Industrial Engineering. Se graduated in Computer Science at the University of Milano. She is the coordinator of the Virtual Prototyping Laboratory at the Dpt. of Mechanical Engineering. Her main research activities include methods and tools for virtual prototyping of products, multimodal interaction techniques and technologies, haptic interaction and technologies, and their application in the engineering and industrial design sectors. She has founded and chaired the Italian Chapter of EuroGraphics from 2001 to 2008. Recently, she has chaired the ASME-WinVR 2011 Conference, and co-edited a book on “Innovation in Product Design – from CAD to Virtual Prototyping”.

8. Gabriel Baud-Bovy Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Science, Italian Institute of Technology – Italy e-mail: Gabriel.Baud-Bovy@iit.it Title of the talk: Dynamic Touch and Interaction Short bio Gabriel Baud-Bovy was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1965. He received a BS in Computer Science at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1990; an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, Oregon, in 1992; and a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Geneva in 1999. His research interests are centered on the study of the motor and perceptual processes involved in fine human motor skills and the dexterous manipulation of objects. Gabriel Baud-Bovy is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the "Vita-Salute San Raffaele" University in Milan and team leader at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) department of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

9. Seungmoon Choi Department of Computer Science and Engineering POSTECH – Republic of Korea e-mail: choism@postech.ac.kr Title of the talk: Graphical Authoring Tools for Vibrotactile Stimulus Design Short bio Seungmoon Choi received the BS and MS degrees in control and instrumentation engineering from Seoul National University in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University in 2003. He is an associate professor of computer science and engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He is a reciepient of an Early Career Award 2011 from IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics and several best paper awards from international conferences. He is a co-chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Haptics, and an editorial board member of Virtual Reality, and has been served in the program committee of a number of international conferences on haptics. His research interests lie on haptic rendering and perception, emphasizing on kinesthetic rendering of hardness and texture, tactile rendering, sensorimotor skill modeling and transfer, haptic augmented reality, mobile haptic interface, data haptization, and applied perception. His basic research has been applied to mobile devices, automobiles, virtual prototyping, and motion-based remote controllers.

10. Vincent Levesque University of British Columbia – Canada e-mail: vincent@vlevesque.com Title of the talk: Designing Interactions for Novel Haptic Technologies Vincent Levesque is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Immersion Canada (Montréal, Canada). He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) from 2009 to 2011. He received a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering (2000), and a M.Eng. (2003) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from McGill University (Montreal, Canada). His research interests include interaction design with novel haptic interfaces, tactile displays and rendering, and applications of haptics for persons with visual impairments. He is the recipient of several awards including a Best Paper Award at the 2011 ACM CHI Conference for his work on touch interaction with programmable friction, the Best Reviewer Award at the 2010 Haptics Symposium, the Best Demonstration Award at the 2008 Haptics Symposium for his work on dynamic tactile graphics, and a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE World Haptics Conference for his work on refreshable Braille. He holds an Industrial R&D Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Short bio

11. Dianne T.V. Pawluk Department of Biomedical Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Engineering – USA e-mail: dtpawluk@vcu.edu Title of the talk: Designing Haptic Interaction for Individuals who are Blind and Visually Impaired Short bio Dianne Pawluk received a BS degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1989 and a MSC degree in Computing and Information Sciences from Queen’s University in Canada in 1991. She completed her PhD degree in Engineering Sciences at Harvard University in 1997. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a recipient of three research grants from the National Science Foundation in developing Assistive Technology for Individuals who are Blind and Visually Impaired. She is currently serving on the program committee for the IEEE Haptic Symposium and previously served on the committee for World Haptics. Her research in haptics primarily focuses on the development of Assistive Technology for Individuals who are Blind and Visually Impaired both in terms of the development of devices and software methods, the use of haptics in K-12 education, and on understanding Human Mid-level Haptic Processing (i.e. Haptic Perceptual Organization).