Working with Diverse Facets of Interactive Media and Haptics
Introduction
The Applied Interactive Media (AIM) Lab is a research group that works with diverse facets of interactive multimedia and haptics. Our interests include the acquisition, communication, display of the human sense of touch, as well as the integration and coordination of this media with other sensory displays (audio, video, text, smell, etc.) in a general multimedia system. Several applications, including medical training, entertainment, tele-operation, and interpersonal communication, are of our interest. We are also focused on exploring the relationship between mediated touch and emotions, an area commonly known as affective touch. In this particular field, our goal is to explore the following areas: (1) acquisition of human emotions via haptic modality, (2) display of human emotions using haptic display devices, and (3) enhancement of user’s affective state and reproduction of feeling of social touch via haptic simulation.
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Neurohaptics
Neural models that quantify human haptic experiences based on brain activities. Stimulates human haptic responses during haptic intervention.
KATIB
Development of haptically-guided assistive platform to help children with learning difficulties to acquire important handwriting skills in different languages.
Haptogram
Provides 3D tactile feedback via focused ultrasound without physical contact with human skin. Designed to create an immersive multimodal system.
Haptic Jacket
Studies the relationship between touch and emotions. Haptic jacket displays vibrotactile sensation with several modes and sensations of interaction.
Haptodont
Development of haptics-based virtual reality periodontal training simulation. Designed to provide both visual and tactile dental sensations.
Haptic Eye
Designed to produce thermal property measurements of materials based on their response to thermal excitation. Allows material identification.