Haptics Club

In this episode we will discuss of the value, opportunities, and use cases of wideband vibrotactile technologies with  Rafal Pijewski, CTO of Actronika, a company specialized in transparent wideband actuators, and Kyle Skippon, lead engineer from Titan Haptics, a company that develops HD haptic motors based on Linear Magnetic Ram technology. We touch on topics like haptics design, control, tradeof...

Ed is one of the cornerstone figures of the haptics ecosystem, both in Academia and Entrepreneurships with multiple companies developed over the years.  He holds the Breed Senior Professorship of Design at Northwestern University and Professorship of Mechanical Engineering.  We will discuss of lifelong learning, how to approach a research career in Haptics, and what to think about when d...

We interview Sara Price and Carey Jewitt from university College of London on digital touch communication.  We discuss the results of the long and ambitious in Touch project investigating digital touch from a sociological and human centered perspective.    Fantastic conversation!   Manifesto of Digital Social Touch: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2021.754050...

Season 3 of Haptics Club is here! For the first episode of the season #29, we have special guest Bob Crockett of HaptX, best known for their haptic gloves for virtual reality and robotics. We cover the challenges of hardware development in the emerging fields of VR and AR, and the entrepreneurial side of bringing complex technology to market. Have you heard the origin story of HaptX? This is a tru...

Second Season Finale! A retrospective of the topics shared in the last 20 episodes, and a secret announcement! Don't miss it 

HC # 27 is an event fully dedicated to Haptics mixed with musical experiences on the creation, shared play, and listening side. We have Samantha Melnyk from Korg the famous digital musical instrument creators, and Luca Turchet, from Trento University. It is a wonderful conversation on the interplay of haptics and music, and how the tactile sense can increase and expand the experience of the listen...

HC # 26 Haptic Feedback in Marketing & E-commerce with Dr. Margot Racat. Marketing UX & haptic researcher in computer-mediated consumption at IDRAC Business School Lyon. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uvOLS3gAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.ecoles-idrac.com/campus/lyon

Adult Haptics Ecosystem with Kyle Machulis, better known as qDot, founder and CEO of Nonpolynomail. Fantastic conversation spanning from the tremendous growth of the adult haptics ecosystem, the challenges of defining your target technology map, and the impacts of remote agency on your personal space. A must listen. https://nonpolynomial.com

HC #24 will be covering the process that goes through designing, prototyping & evaluating haptic interactions. Featuring Thomas Müller founder of Hapticlabs.io. https://www.hapticlabs.io

HC#23 will feature Matt Tullis, the VP of XR, at Ultraleap. Ultraleap is a leader in hand tracking and mid-air haptic technologies. We talk in the episode about the current future evolution of Ultraleap technologies, developer ecosystem, Open XR, and the future of Haptics.  www.ultraleap.com

HC#22 will dive into one haptics market rarely talked about. Haptics for movie experiences. We will have on stage Robert Desautels, CTO of D-box.  D-box built a growing business for 20 years supplying movie theatres and high-end home installation with high fidelity haptics chair and have a full fledge end-to-end haptics design and distribution studio to “haptify” the latest movie release. htt...

For HC21 we have the XR haptics, implementation and design guidelines book presentations authored by Chris Ullrich from Immersion, Rafal Pijewsky from Actronika, and our crew members Gijs den Butter from Senseglove and Eric Vezzoli from Interhaptics. Book link: https://hapticsif.org/xr-haptics-book/ The authors interviewed world-leading experts in haptics to solidify their experience on the market...

In this event, we will talk about the quantification of haptics with Elisa Santella from Grewus. The ability to deliver design guidelines for the implementation of Haptics is of fundamental importance to reduce development costs for haptics products. We will talk about the characteristics and perks of the quantification framework developed for the automotive sector.

For Haptics Club #19, we're hosting guest speaker Antoine Weill-Duflos, Director of Research and Product Integration at Haply Robotics. He'll be discussing how his team is building haptic devices for medical simulation. And how they are working to facilitate access to force feedback devices and haptics in general, and how knowledge of haptic perception and illusion can play a role. Event #19 will...

Vincent Hayward has more than 30 years of experience in haptics and had major contribution in haptics control, perception, algorithms, and design. A must listen. Video recording of the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHkjMZPcdpw Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hayward Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YWv1lIkAAAAJ&hl=en Academie de Sciences: ht...

Chris Ullrich was in a privileged position over the past 20 years in the haptics innovation space. Being the CTO of Immersion, the major technological player in the haptics space, he "saw it all". He is with us for this landmark episode. We talked about many different topics like technology strategy, IP, business models, T-shirts, user experience, scaling haptics, failed predictions, future of hap...

HC #16 with Hasti Sefi, Hannah Elbaggari, and Samantha Melnyk of the learn haptics project We will touch a lot of important aspects of the relation between haptics industry and academia, discovering haptics, partnership, and how to create compelling haptics experiences.  Find out more on the website https://www.learnhaptics.org/

HC#15 with Ranjini Raghuveer, former Immersion Corporation in charge of product management for automotive haptics.  We will talk about product constraints, user experience, and needs for the automotive market. Show Notes: Trends in automotive haptics: https://www.immersion.com/automotive-haptics-trends-and-perspectives/ HC#2 with Filip Aleksandrow: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5p9fc56bh2P...

We discuss high definition haptics, the implications on consumer technology and user experiences with Dave Birnbaum. Dave has over 10 years of background in haptics design, UX, IP, and ethics. He's currently the President of the Haptics Industry Forum and host of INIT podcast. This event will be co-hosted by Dave Parisi, Associate Professor at College of Charleston and author of Archaeologies of T...

We will talk about Chemical  Haptics  with  Jasmine Lu and Jas Brooks of the Human-Computer Integration Lab of the University of Chicago . This is a new type of haptic device that works by delivering chemicals to the skin. In turn, the user’s skin reacts and internally creates haptic sensations. Explainer post - https://medium.com/acm-uist/achieving-new-skin-sensations-with-chemical...

Stay updated with the next Haptics Club events! Yasemin is Assistant Professor in Cognitive Robotics at Delft university with an interest in haptic perception and a strong expertise in Haptics Textures. We will talk about tactile interfaces, tactile perception, and robotics. Personal website from Yasemin https://yaseminvardar.com/

Stay updated with the next Haptics Club events! With a decade of industry experience, Dan blends art, design, engineering, and human perception to create compelling products and experiences that utilize cutaneous and kinesthetic feedback to help users better experience the world around them. Currently, at LoveHoneyGroup, a global leader in sexual wellness technology, Dan runs R&D projects blen...

Stay updated with the next Haptics Club events! For Haptics Club event #10, we're hosting David Eagleman, Stanford Neuroscientist, author of LIVEWIRED, and CEO of Neosensory and BrainCheck.  He'll be discussing how our sense of touch plays a fundamental role in technology and the future of senses.   Learn more: • https://twitter.com/davideagleman • Eagleman.com • https://twitter.com/Neos...

Stay updated with the next Haptics Club events! Simon dedicated the last year to investigate how wideband wearable haptics and hand tracking can generate great experiences in VR during UI interactions. We will talk about the discoveries of his journey, how he used different tools to prototype experiences and what he learned during this process.

Stay updated with the next Haptics Club events! For Haptics Club #8, we're hosting guest speaker Hrafn Thorisson, CEO  and Co-Founder of Aldin Dynamics, creator of cutting-edge virtual  reality technologies and award-winning games like Waltz of the Wizard:  Natural Magic. We'll be discussing how crucial haptics is in virtual  reality and how optical hand-tracking suffers from t...