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Below is a list of the accepted work-in-progress papers to be presented at WHC23. Click here to downoad the articles.

Work in Progress Papers - Tuesday 11th of July
Room: Vide-1 (E1)
  1. Improving the Design of an Underactuated Hand Exoskeleton with Evolutionary Algorithms
    Aleyna Soylemez, Hüseyin Taner Yüksel, Barış Akbaş, Mine Sarac, and Fabio Stroppa
  2. Development of All-In-One Tactile Sensor Based on Piezoelectric Properties and Thermistor
    Jeong Gyun Jang, Minkyung Sim, Joonghyun Kim, gisoon choi, and Jae Eun Jang
  3. Shape-memory origami for gentle haptic feedback
    Mila Lücker, Gijs Huisman, Qiang LIU, and Sepideh Ghodrat
  4. An Optical 3-Axis Force and Displacement Sensing Array
    Olivia Leslie, David Córdova Bulens, and Stephen J. Redmond
  5. Encounter-Type Haptic Device Enabling Edges, Vertexes and Plane Palm Interaction: the Haptic Origami Device
    Pedro Gomez Hernandez, Lisheng Kuang, Monica Malvezzi, Domenico Prattichizzo, Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Claudio Pacchierotti, and Francesco Chinello
  6. PlasmaTouch: Non-contact tactile technology using laser-induced plasma
    Hyung-Sik Kim, Kyu-Beom Kim, Ji-Su Kim, and Soon-Cheol Chung
  7. Laser HaPouch: A Haptic Display Utilizing Selective Activation of Laser-powered Liquid-to-gas Phase Change Actuator Arrays
    Kazuki Yamaura and Takefumi Hiraki
  8. Haptic pleasantness, naturalness, and complexity, of geometric raised line drawings
    Myrthe A. Plaisier, Naud R.H. Janssen, and Kynthia Chamilothori
  9. Vibrotactile spatial acuity on different regions of the back
    Myrthe A. Plaisier, Cahelle S.J.M. Vleeshouwers, Nynke Boonstra, Yueying Shi, Sam J.I. van der Velden, Wouter K. Vos, and Astrid M. L. Kappers
Room: Vide-2 (E2a)
  1. Smartphone-based temporal discrimination threshold assessment: Pilot study in normal and MS function
    Wilson Torres, Michael Abbott, and Hannah Stuart
  2. Impact of Sound Localization on Roughness Perception in Audio-tactile Cross-modal Effect
    Yi Jin, Kenichi Ito, Yuki Ban, and Shinichi Warisawa
  3. Optimizing passive presentation strategies for improved interpretation of haptic replay experiences
    Luke Batteas, Daniel Volpi, Pijuan Yu, Kofi Kyei-Amponsah, Francis Quek, Rebecca Friesen, and M Cynthia Hipwell
  4. Do humans perceive the velocity dependence of fingertip friction?
    Maja Fehlberg, Eva Monfort, Knut Drewing, and Roland Bennewitz
  5. A Low-Profile Arm-Swing Device for Gait Assistance
    Jesse Prime, Joseph Liechty, Haohan Zhang, Jake Abbott, and Edoardo Battaglia
  6. Wearable Haptics for Proprioception of Shoulder Movement in Stroke
    Preston Irwin, Ethan Bollwinkel, Olivia Richards, Arthur Monteiro, Benjamin Smith, McKay Ashby, Joseph Brignone, and Edoardo Battaglia
  7. A Comparative Study of Physical and Haptic Exhibits in Informal Learning Environment
    Dajin Lee, Daehyeon Nam, Seokwon Jeong, Keehoon Kim, and Seungmoon Choi
  8. Roughness, Friction and the Pleasantness of Touch
    Sairam Saikumar, Maja Fehlberg, and Roland Bennewitz
Room: Vide-2 (E2b)
  1. Efficacy of high-frequency stimuli in tactile peripheral nerve
    Richard Vickery, Cheryl Kumar, Deepak Sharma, Alastair Loutit, and Ingvars Birznieks
  2. 3-D Reconstruction of the Fingertip During Tactile Interactions
    Donatien Doumont, Anika Kao, Gregory Gerling, Arnaud Browet, Benoit Delhaye, and Philippe Lefevre
  3. Quantitative Analysis of Relation among Finger Scanning Speed, Surface Roughnesses, and Properties of Tactile Receptors
    Hiroyuki Aso, Takefumi Hiraki, Hiroki Ishizuka, and Norihisa Miki
Room: Vide-2 (E2c)
  1. Transcoding texture information acquired contactless to tactile signals in the context of a remote touchless inspection system
    Fady Youssef, Inderawes Khalil, and Thorsten Kern
  2. Inter-joint Vibrotactile Phantom Sensation on the Human Arm
    Gyungmin Jin and Gunhyuk Park
  3. Enhanced Electrotactile Sensation: Tapping and Sliding
    Gisoon choi, Joonghyun Kim, and Jae Eun Jang
Vide-2 (E2d)
  1. Pilot Study of Softness Presentation by Electro-Tactile Stimulation at the Edge of the Smartphone
    Taiki Takami, Taiga Saito, Takayuki Kameoka, Izumi Mizoguchi, and Hiroyuki Kajimoto
  2. Deshi: A Shape-Changing Haptic Interface that Provides Cursor Feedback for Low-Vision Computer Users
    Jie Yechen, Irene Palaonda, Xin Zhou, and Adam Spiers
  3. Effect of Electrode Polarization Impedance on Electroadhesion
    Easa AliAbbasi, Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen, Fred-Johan Pettersen, and Cagatay Basdogan
Room: Vide-2 (E2e)
  1. Untethered Pneumatic Haptic Glove for Realistic Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality
    Jiaming Qi, Jiaqi Tang, Joo Chuan Yeo, and Chwee Teck Lim
  2. Strap Tightness and Tissue Composition Both Affect the Vibration Created by a Wearable Device
    Nataliya Rokhmanova, Robert Faulkner, Julian Martus, Jonathan Fiene, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
  3. Design for Wrist-Worn Haptic Device with Custom Voice Coil Actuation
    Umit Sen and Mine Sarac
Room: Hasseltzaal (H)
  1. Soft Material for Multi-Actuator Isolation in a Haptic Handle
    Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marie Babel, and Maud Marchal
  2. Preliminary Evaluation of a 3-DoF Magnetic Haptic Display for Contactless Force Presentation
    Satoshi Tanaka and Hiroyuki Kajimoto
  3. Evaluation and Learning Curves of Motion- and Force-based Haptic Input Devices in Telemanipulation: A Work-in-Progress Study
    Timo Markert, Sebastian Matich, Jonas Pfannes, Andreas Theissler and Martin Atzmueller
  4. Interactive Approach to AI-Based Source Separation of Vibrotactile Signals for Haptic Transmission
    Yushi Nakaya, Yusuke Takahashi, Shuntaro Suzuki, Sota Nishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Masamune Waga, Toru Matsubara, and Masashi Konyo
Work in Progress Papers - Wednesday 12th of July
Room: Vide-1 (E1)
  1. Improving Haptic Rendering Quality by Measuring and Compensating for Undesired Forces
    Farimah Fazlollahi, Zahra Taghizadeh, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
  2. Haptic Recording and Display System for Guide Dog Training
    Qirong ZHU, Ansheng Wang, Shinji Tanaka, Yoshiro Matsunami, Yasutoshi Makino, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
  3. Open-Source Hand Model Configuration Tool (HMCT)
    Kathrin Krieger, David Leins, Thorben Markmann, and Robert Haschke
  4. Capturing Rich Auditory-Haptic Contact Data for Surface Recognition
    Behnam Khojasteh, Yitian Shao, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
  5. Non-Linear Hand-Pose Undersensing: Preliminary Results
    Pawan Subedi, Mathias Schoen, and Edoardo Battaglia
  6. Vision Helps Touch: Pseudo-Haptic Effects for Conveying Fabrics Properties
    Marina Ricci, Maarten Wijntjes, Gijs Huisman, and Sylvia Pont
  7. Surface Detection by an Artificial Finger Using Vibrotactile Recognition
    Alhussein Mohammad Hazem Osman, Alireza Abbasimoshaei, Fady Youssef, and Thorsten Kern
  8. Airborne Ultrasound-Driven Passive Haptic Device Presenting Low-Frequency Vibration and Static Force
    Tao Morisaki, Takaaki Kamigaki, Masahiro Fujiwara, Yasutoshi Makino, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
  9. Evaluating Perceived Coldness of Non-Contact Cooling by Focused Ultrasound
    Hanaho Motoyama, Tao Morisaki, Masahiro Fujiwara, Yasutoshi Makino, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
Room: Vide-2 (E2a)
  1. On the Biophysics of Squeaky Fingers
    Thomas Daunizeau, Sinan Haliyo, and Vincent Hayward
  2. Plantar cutaneous afferent responses to behaviourally relevant forces
    Luke Cleland, Erika Howe, Christopher Nester, Kristen Hollands, Joanna Reeves, Nick Strzalkowski, Leah Bent, and Hannes Saal
  3. Tracking Submicrometer Vibrations in Depth in the Glabrous Skin
    Basil Duvernoy, Emma Kindström, Anders Fridberger, and Sarah McIntyre
  4. Short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials following vibrotactile stimulation
    Elena Fuehrer, Lisa Maurer, and Katja Fiehler
  5. Vibrotactile Sensory Substitution to Convey Foot Center of Pressure for Transfemoral Prosthesis Users
    Joshua Fleck, Shane King, Bradley Bolton, Ayaka Hoshida, Payam Zandiyeh, and Marcia O'Malley
  6. Exploring Electrotactile Stimulation as a Modality for Sensation Illusion on the Arm
    Xin Zhu, Pranavi Jalapati, Jocelyn Tsai, Zhenghui Su, Shihong Ling, and Heather Culbertson
  7. Toward a Device for Reliable Evaluation of Vibrotactile Perception
    Giulia Ballardini and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
  8. Effects of Fingernail Stimulation of the Little or Ring Finger on Index and Thumb Finger Tactile Sensitivity
    Hikaru Kukita and Yuki Hashimoto
Room: Vide-2 (E2b)
  1. Impact of hybrid actuation on the perception of complex signals
    Paul Mefflet, Thanh-loan LE, Mokrane Boudaoud, David Gueorguiev, and Sinan Haliyo
  2. The Role of Stimulus Amplitude and Frequency on Movement-related Tactile Attenuation
    Belkis Ezgi Arikan and Katja Fiehler
  3. Could extended reality haptics be used for healthcare education? A survey
    Marc Gilbey
Room: Vide-2 (E2c)
  1. Towards enhanced rehabilitation experience combining somatosensory cortex stimulation and immersive virtual reality
    Patricia Capsi Morales, Johanna Happold, Kristen Kozielski, and Cristina Piazza
  2. When Virtual Hugs Become Sexual Harassment: Conceptualizing Acceptable Forms of Mediated Touch in Extended Reality Platforms
    Kyooeun Jang, Sandeep Zechariah George Kollannur, and Xin Zhu
  3. Temperature change measurement of skin-to-skin contact
    Hamaguchi Mizuki, Takumi Hamazaki, Miku Kaneda, Seitaro Kaneko, Izumi Mizoguchi, and Hiroyuki Kajimoto
Room: Vide-2 (E2d)
  1. Wrist vibrotactile-augmented interface encoding music melody
    Liwen He and Yun Wang
  2. Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics
    Feng Zhou, Dominic Price, Claudio Pacchierotti, Ayse Kucukyilmaz
  3. Improving Kinesthetic Haptic Renderings through a Frequency Partitioned Admittance Actuation Approach
    Megh Doshi, Patrick Dills, and Michael Zinn
Room: Hasseltzaal (H)
  1. Haptic Feedback Provided by 3D Printed Shoe Insoles
    Rino Uesaki, Taisuke Okazaki, Yoshihiro Asano, Yuichi Ueda, Satoshi Komatsu, Yoshihiko Andou, Jun Morita, Masashi Nakatani, and Hiroya Tanaka
  2. Octopus : On-screen cable-driven octopus-like haptic interface
    Yeoeun Kim, Seok Won Jeong, Dukchan Yoon, and Keehoon Kim
  3. Interaction with Virtual Environments via a Kinesthetic Mid-Air Haptic Device and Augmented Reality
    Mina Farag, Alaa Adel, and Islam S. M. Khalil
  4. Presentation of Tracing Sensation to Fingertip Using a Rotating Disk
    Soma Kato, Yui Suga, Masahiro Miyakami, Izumi Mizoguchi, and Hiroyuki Kajimoto
  5. Improving the Haptic Perception of Virtual Walls Using a Vibrating, Hardness Changing Haptic Joystick
    Joshua Brown and Ildar Farkhatdinov
  6. Can Recording Expert Demonstrations with Tool Vibrations Facilitate Teaching of Manual Skills?
    Ravali Gourishetti, Bernard Javot, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
  7. Tactile Presentation with Air Suction and Electrical Stimulation
    Yan Xue Teo, Taiga Saito, Takayuki Kameoka, and Izumi Mizoguchi
  8. Wearable Multi-Frequency Vibrotactile Display for Virtual Textures
    Paras Kumar and Rebecca Friesen
Work in Progress Papers - Thursday 13th of July
Room: Vide-1 (E1)
  1. Towards Data-Driven Patient-Specific Haptic Rendering in SOFA
    Øystein Bjelland
  2. The Haptic Librarian: Enabling variable object assignment in large distributed haptic simulations
    Daniel Norman and William Harwin
  3. GelTac: A Silicone Elastomer Neuromorphic Tacile Sensor Applied to Edge-Orientation Classification Tasks with a Spiking Neural Network.
    Fraser Macdonald
  4. A Device for Implementing Kinesthetic Fingertip Guidance and Constraint on Planar Surfaces
    Tomasz Trzpit, Michael Peshkin, and J. Edward Colgate
  5. Enhanced Embedded Force Sensing in Sensorized Prosthetic Hands with Multilayered Piezoresistive Arrays
    Yensabro Kanashiro and Jeremy Brown
  6. A transparent and reconfigurable hydraulic actuator to visualize the finger pad surface at distinct percepts of compliance
    Bingxu Li, Alton Sharpe, and Gregory Gerling
  7. Transforming Tactile Interfaces: Tri-Axis Force Sensor for Sensory Signal Processing
    Sonja Gross, Luca Obwegs, Junnan Li, Theophil Spiegeler-Castaneda, Amartya Ganguly, Cristina Piazza, and Sami Haddadin
  8. Distributed tactile device using micro DC motor arrays
    Takuto Nakamura
Room: Vide-2 (E2a)
  1. Fidget Knob: a haptic device to study fidgeting behaviors
    John Eichenlaub, Gijs Huisman, and Haian Xue
  2. Multi-Modal Haptic Feedback Device for Upper-Limb Prostheses
    Ali Bou-Orm, Gemma Carolina Bettelani, Patricia Capsi Morales, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin, and Cristina Piazza
  3. Haptic-Based Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training for Visually Impaired People
    Sevval Cetin, Baran Aslan, Ali Tas, Safak Gun, Umit Sen, Mine Sarac, and Fabio Stroppa
  4. Sequential Learning: A Pilot Hyperscanning Study
    Ozge Ozlem Saracbasi
  5. Sensory Impact of Removing Pure Tones from Complex Vibrations
    Thanh-loan LE, Gilles Bailly, Malika Auvray, and David Gueorguiev
  6. Numbers Generation with Vibration Flow to avoid Shoulder Surfing Attack
    Zi Ying Wong, Yong Hae Heo, and Sang-Youn Kim
  7. Investigation of Tactual Sensation of Periodontal Ligament by using Electrical Stimulation
    shiori iwahama, Sho Sakurai, Koichi Hirota, and Takuya Nojima
  8. Comparing Skin-Stretch and Shape-Changing 2D Haptic Feedback
    Hassaan-Ul Huda and Adam Spiers
Room: Vide-2 (E2b)
  1. Can We Increase the Perceived Intensity of Mid-Air Haptic Shapes Rendered With Dynamic Tactile Pointers?
    Lendy Mulot, Thomas Howard, Claudio Pacchierotti, and Maud Marchal
  2. Development of all printed magnetorheological elastomer hardness change-based non-contact touch sensors*
    Murali Bissannagari, Youngjae Cho, Woongki Hong, Duhee Kim, Minhye Shin, Jae Eun Jang, and Hongki Kang
  3. The Influence of Amplitude and Sharpness on the Perceived Intensity of Isoenergetic Ultrasonic Signals
    David Gueorguiev, Baptiste Rohou--Claquin, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker
Room: Vide-2 (E2c)
  1. A Discrimination of Slipping Condition in Paper Turning up Based on Tactile Information by Reservoir Computing
    Sota Tsubokura, Honoka Nakashiro, Mitsuhito Ando, Katsunori Kitano, and Haruo Noma
  2. Exploring Hard and Soft Texture Perception by Force-Haptic Discrimination
    Alireza Abbasimoshaei and Thorsten Kern
  3. Human perception baseline for anticipating haptic greetings in human-robot interaction
    Merel Jung and Martijn Goudbeek
Room: Vide-2 (E2d)
  1. Assessing the Utility of Haptic Feedback when Teleoperating an ROV
    Joshua Brown, Ildar Farkhatdinov, and Michael Jenkin
  2. Multi-Layered Control of A Bilateral Haptic Telemanipulation Setup using Collaborative UR10e Robots
    Ali Elnwegy, Fady Youssef, and Thorsten Kern
  3. Teleoperated Power Injector with Haptic Feedback for Angiography
    Bolun Zhang, Erick Oberstar, and Michael Zinn
Room: Vide-2 (E2e)
  1. Electrical stimulator based on high power transistor array for tactile sensation
    Joonghyun Kim, Jae Eun Jang, and gisoon choi
  2. Physical and behavioral comparison of haptic touchscreens
    Corentin Bernard, Nicolas Huloux, Michael Wiertlewski, and Jocelyn Monnoyer
  3. Electrically Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuator Matrix for Haptic Surfaces
    Pengrong Lyu, Jeroen Sol, Danqing Liu, Dick Broer, Roel Kusters, Darragh Walsh, Charlotte Kjellander, and Peter Zalar
Room: Hasseltzaal (H)
  1. A Personalized Haptic Sharing Platform over the Internet
    Harunobu Taguchi, Yulan Ju, Youichi Kamiyama, Kouta Kitamichi, Kenta Kan, Kenta Watashima, Hironori Ishikawa, Yoshihiro Tanaka, and Kouta Minamizawa
  2. Multimodal Haptic Feedback for Collisions Combining Vibration and Electrical Muscle Stimulation
    Jungeun Lee and Seungmoon Choi
  3. Food texture augmentation by smartphone gripping in hand
    Izumi Mizoguchi and Hiroyuki Kajimoto
  4. Reconfigurable flexible haptic interface using friction modulation
    Romain Le Magueresse, Fabrice Casset, Frédéric Giraud, Munique Kazar Mendes, Sébastien Brulais, Laure Peris Y Saborit, Anis Kaci and Mikael Colin
  5. Enhancement of Tactile Intensity for Thin Film Vibrators using Lever Mechanism
    Masayuki Kajiura, Taku Hachisu, Toshihiro Takeshita, Yusuke Takei, Takeshi Kobayashi, and Masashi Konyo
  1. 3D Hapkit: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, 3-DOF Haptic Device Based on the Delta Parallel Mechanism
    Han Zhang, Jan Bartels, and Jeremy Brown