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Congratulations to Ludwig Wall and Tianzheng Shi, who will be presenting their work at CHI 2025 in Yokohama!

Ludwig will present his work titled "Intermittent Interaction: User Perception of Periodic Intervention in Semi-Automated Creation Tasks", by Ludwig Wall, Oliver Schneider, and Dan Vogel.

Tianzheng will present his work titled "Development and Initial Validation of the Haptic Experience Inventory (HXI)", by Tianzheng Shi and Oliver Schneider.

See you in Yokohama!

Congratulations to Tor-Salve Dalsgaard on his accepted paper titled "A Unified Model for Haptic Experience" by Tor-Salve Dalsgaard and Oliver Schneider.

Tor-Salve will present his work at ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama. See you there!

We were thrilled to host Prof. Margot Racat at the HX Lab last week! Prof. Racat presented on her work involving haptics in consumer contexts and chatted with us about how we can further understand and support the experience of haptics. Find out more at her lab's page: https://www.ecoles-idrac.com/recherche/idrac-research-lab

Oliver Schneider will be at CHI '23 to present Factors of Haptic Experience across Multiple Haptic Modalities by Ahmed Anwar, Tianzheng Shi, and Oliver Schneider. See you in Hamburg!

If you missed the talk, you can catch a recording here.

PhD candidate Ludwig Wilhelm Wall collaborated with an interdisciplinary group of Waterloo students to create "The Light Within," an interactive art installation featured in Lumière: The Art of Light. The exhibit is currently on display at Ontario Place until May 7.

ART:https://twitter.com/UWCheritonCS/status/1637837222111051778

The Haptic Experience (HX) Lab is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to assist with a variety of projects involving haptics, physical interactive technology, and human-computer interaction. There is a great deal of flexibility in the topic, as the post-doc will be able to manage existing projects while having the opportunity to further their own research agenda. There will be ample opportunity for student mentorship, grant writing, and lab management experience in addition to core research activities.

This is a huge moment for Haptic Experience Lab as two of our graduate students - Karthikan Theivendran and Ahmed Anwar have successfully completed their masters thesis. Best wishes on this spectacular achievement! We wish both of you all the best for your future endeavours !!

Prof. Oliver Schneider and PhD Student Bibhushan Joshi from Haptics Computing Lab along with Donald Degraen (Saarland University), Prof. Georg Freitag (University of Applied Sciences Dresden), Paul Strohmeier (Sensorimotor Interaction Group MPI for Informatics), Bruno Fruchard (Inria - Lille) and Dennis Wittchen (University of Applied Sciences Dresden) were successfully able to organize CHI 2022 workshop on "Sustainable Haptic Design: Improving Collaboration, Sharing, and Reuse in Haptic Design Research".

We would like to express our gratitude towards our Speakers Eric Vezzoli (CEO and Co-Founder - Go Touch VR), Prof. Vincent Levesque (Assistant Professor - ETS) and Prof. Hasti Seifi (Assistant Professor - University of Copenhagen) for sharing their knowledge, and Thank all the participants for their active involvement and making the workshop fun and interactive.

The Haptic Computing Lab is attending World Haptics 2021! We have one technical paper and several WIPs

Suji Sathiyamurthy will presenting her work on measuring HX:

Sathiyamurthy, S., Liu, M., Kim, E. and Schneider, O. 2021. Measuring Haptic Experience : Elaborating the HX model with scale development. To Appear in World Haptics ’21. (2021), 6.