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Please find below the list of the 11 accepted workshops. Please visit the workshop pages for the detailed program of each workshop.

If you would like to change your workshop registration please contact registration@worldhaptics.org.

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Morning workshop – Room: Senaatszaal

Haptic technologies have long sought to simulate the tactile properties of materials for virtual or remote interactions. Although the engineering aspects of these technologies have been extensively studied, little is known about the sensory and experiential spaces they offer for design. The human experience of materials can extend beyond their immediate sensory attributes, such as roughness, to influence user emotion, perceptions of one’s body, or encourage human expression, reflection, or action. This workshop aims to bring together haptic device creators, perception scientists, and interaction designers to explore and map the user experience of materials across various technologies. Workshop participants will rotate through 4-6 stations featuring natural and programmable materials and document their experiences through notes. These notes are then used to create and compare experiential maps, identify design gaps, and guide future engineering and design in haptics.

 

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://hastiseifi.com/whc-2023-workshop/ 

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Afternoon workshop – Room: Collegezaal A

In the last couple of decades, with technological advances, haptic feedback, particularly vibrotactual actuation has started gaining greater value in our everyday life. Several electronic devices currently have a vibrotaction function. Vibrotaction, however, often only serves to notify the user about some events. Yet, potential uses of vibrotactile technology can be much more diverse. This workshop brings together experts from academia to industry, who show how vibrotactile and haptic feedback technology can be applied in a wide area of different use cases, and what are the key factors and the trends in its application. Selected demonstrations will complement the talks and discussions. Invited speakers made novel contributions to the understanding of vibrotactile perception and its’ use in diverse areas. The role of vibrotactile technology and haptic feedback will be examined in the scope of sports, time perception, the automotive industry, gamification, air vehicles, and augmented and virtual reality.

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://sites.google.com/view/vibrotactiletechnology/home

Organisers

Afternoon workshop – Room: Senaatszaal

The skin is our largest and most versatile sensory organ, capable of perceiving a wide range of sensations, from pain to pleasure. Multisensory cutaneous displays are emerging technologies that have the potential to revolutionize fields such as human-computer interaction, virtual reality, and robotics. By recreating and delivering rich cutaneous sensations, these displays open up new possibilities for sensory experiences. Join us for this workshop, where experts will explore the opportunities and challenges of multisensory cutaneous displays through talks, demonstrations, and panel discussions. Learn about the science and hardware development behind these displays, as well as their practical applications. Engage in discussions with experts, experience cutting-edge demonstrations, and explore the future of research and development in this exciting field!

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://sites.google.com/view/hohapticslab/whc23_mcd

Organisers

Morning workshop –  Room: Commissekamer 3

In this tutorial (https://tactilevision.github.io/WHC23-CollabJam), we will investigate real-time collaboration to design vibrotactile feedback. We focus on how participants communicate their intent using different mediums such as verbal communication, gestures and tactile messages (tactons). To facilitate and understand this design experience, we built CollabJam – a real-time remote collaboration toolkit – using a vibrotactile device with five actuators that one can attach freely to their body. As different local setups connect remotely, this creates a distributed collaborative design space. Thus, CollabJam enables individual participants to control and actuate multiple local and remote devices simultaneously to share tactons. We will host hands-on sessions with groups consisting of 2–3 members. The participants can interact freely with the device in co-located and remote environments and perform tasks given by the organizers. Afterward,  participants’ collective shared experience will be discussed. We expect this tutorial to uncover insights on the communications patterns being used to design tactons collaboratively.

Organisers

Afternoon workshop – Room: Collegezaal D

What are the key ethical questions for designing, developing, and using digital technologies that mediate the sense of touch? Recent advances across a broad range of touch technologies – from social robots, to VR, wearables, and other haptic devices – mean this is a crucial time to interrogate the ethics of digital touch interactions (whether co-located or over distance). This workshop will explore questions of consent, safety, agency, and trust in three parts: firstly, we will hear from practitioners about the ethical challenges they have faced and the strategies they have employed; secondly, we will have a chance to try out examples of pertinent touch technologies. Finally, against this backdrop, we’ll work collaboratively to develop a toolkit for approaching questions of future digital touch ethics. Visit  https://dutchtouchsociety.org/whc-workshop for more information about the workshop and a first impression of the toolkit.

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Full day workshop – Room: Hasseltzaal

There is a divide between the reality of upper limb prostheses and the needs of prosthesis users, in terms of performance of the prostheses, usability, reliability and cost, as highlighted in a recent IEEE Spectrum article (https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-hand-design). In this workshop, we aim to establish a set of guiding principles for researchers developing innovative haptic feedback solutions for upper-limb prostheses. The workshop features a strong focus on input from the end users, with participation from several prosthesis users. Presentations from researchers in the community will be followed by an interactive discussion with upper extremity prosthesis users. We hope that the guidelines that emerge from this workshop will be used to create a core set of study outcomes that can be used to standardize future research on this topic. We plan to publish these guidelines and core outcomes in a follow-up consensus journal article.

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.edu/2023-whc-workshop/home

Organisers

Morning workshop – Room: Collegezaal A

This workshop aims to investigate the potential of haptic feedback in mitigating cyber-sickness in Extended Reality (XR) environments, a critical challenge in the development of XR headsets. The speakers will examine topics including haptic feedback perspective on reducing motion sickness, XR industry insights, neuroscience aspects, the role of galvanic haptic feedback, and methods for measuring onset and reduction of cyber-sickness. The workshop is designed for headset manufacturers, haptics researchers, neuroscientists, and XR experience developers. Participants can anticipate engaging presentations and discussions, fostering a deeper understanding of the relationship between haptic feedback and cyber-sickness, and insights into the future development of XR technologies. This event provides an opportunity for attendees to engage with experts in the field and explore innovative approaches to addressing cyber-sickness, a significant barrier to widespread XR adoption.

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Morning workshop – Room: Collegezaal B

The sense of touch is of great interest to both the neuroscience and engineering communities. While the neuroscience community rightly focuses on the fundamental questions about how humans and primates sense, perceive, and act in the physical world using touch, the engineering community, strongly motivated by rapid recent advancements in sensing, robotic, and artificial intelligence technologies, aims to design and manufacture artificial tactile sensors and associated algorithms that facilitate dexterous manipulation using robotic grippers/hands. Closer collaboration between these communities will accelerate the progress of tactile sensor design and application. This workshop aims to bridge the information gap between the neuroscience and engineering communities. Exchanging knowledge between these communities may help move us closer to achieving the most efficient tactile sensor designs, that measure the most relevant tactile information, implemented using the most pragmatic engineering approaches. Reaching this goal could have a profound impact on the field of robotic manipulation. 

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://delhayeben.github.io/wh2023workshop.html

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Afternoon workshop – Room: Collegezaal C

The Soft Haptics Workshop is aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of the emerging field of soft haptics. Attendees will learn about the design and development of soft haptic interfaces using soft actuators and sensors, along with their applications. The workshop will cover fundamental principles, including the physics of soft materials, the design of soft actuators and sensors, and their integration into soft haptic interfaces. Furthermore, invited lectures and young scientist talks will offer insight into the state-of-the-art advancements in soft haptics, and participants will get a chance to present their work during the young scientist talks and receive feedback.

For more information, please visit the workshop webpage at https://sites.google.com/view/whc2023-softhaptics. The webpage contains details of the invited lectures, how to participate in young scientist talks, and information about the program.

Organisers

Morning workshop – Room: Collegezaal C

The first part of the workshop aims at illustrating how human-centered processes can inspire novel paradigms for human-machine interaction. The complex coordination of individuals’ motivations, intentions, and feelings can be studied by interpreting human interaction as an active process. However, there are still a few examples of tactile interactions mediated by technological devices. Research in vision can inspire how to reproduce reality in haptics and how multisensory integration can be leveraged to overcome current limitations. The attitude of people towards new technologies is affected by the operational context. To overcome the current boundaries, a transdisciplinary interaction among science, technology and art looks promising. The second part of the workshop will present novel processes at the intersection of Art practice and scientific research in haptics. Jozef Frucek (https://rootlessroot.com/) will show a practical example of such transdisciplinary research process.

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://www.wshearth.com/

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Afternoon workshop – Room: Collegezaal B

Biological touch evolved to capture the properties of the surroundings, build a robust perception of the real world and take appropriate actions. As such, development of artificial tactile systems has been inspired by biology. However, towards their effective deployment, there is the need to explore unconventional substrates and computing strategies that can efficiently function on edge devices. This workshop aims to foster the cross-fertilisation between researchers in neuroscience, neuromorphic engineering, flexible, printed and large area electronics, robotics, and prosthetics. The discussions will cover computational models of tactile sensing and processing, tools for understanding tactile neural representation, design of neuromorphic hardware for distributed sensing, encoding, and computing, and their application to real-world scenarios. The workshop focuses on technologies necessary to advance the research from tactile sensors to touch perception. To offer an opportunity to exchange knowledge, share ideas, and network, young researchers are encouraged to submit abstracts for poster sessions.

For more information, please visit the workshop page at https://neutouch.eu/events/world-haptics-2023