| Start Date: | 3/14/2014 | Start Time: | 4:00 PM |
| End Date: | 3/14/2014 | End Time: | 5:30 PM |
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Event Description
Yon Visell, PhD, assistant professor in Drexel's department of electrical and computer engineering, will discuss how technologies for interacting via the sense of touch are advancing rapidly and how new techniques for furnishing active touch feedback, or "haptics", are poised to impact a diverse array of applications in human-interaction, biomedical systems, and consumer technology. Accurately rendering haptic stimuli is, however, extremely difficult. Indeed, during manual haptic interaction with our environment, we derive a perceptual experience that results from motor activity with the hands, from contact with objects, and from the hand's own sense of movement. Progress has been made toward identifying the mechanisms that subserve the conscious experience of touching and manipulating objects, due in part to the availability of new devices that can tightly control stimulation of both sensation and movement pathways. Nonetheless, many challenges remain, due to the large variety of natural stimuli and interaction types that must be accounted for, the wide range of length and time scales involved, and the distributed nature of the sensing organ - the skin. In this talk, I will discuss new approaches to engineering interfaces that provide haptic feedback, and will explain how, by pursuing parallel advances in the scientific understanding of human perception and contact mechanics, we can create efficient methods for rendering virtual touch sensations. I will describe several novel haptic devices and display techniques that have made it possible to capture and deliver rich, perceptually meaningful haptic and multimodal stimuli to the body, and will discuss some of the new ways that we are using them. For more info, please visit: www.biomed.drexel.edu. |
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Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 120, located at the corner of 33rd and Chestnut Streets. |
Audience:
AlumniInternational StudentsCurrent StudentsFacultyProspective StudentsPublicStaffGraduate Students |
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