Abstract
Dr. Edward Colgate gave a keynote on morning of the second day of the conference. He spoke about haptics and their vital role in everyday life. He showed that, on contrary, haptics are decidedly less important when interfacing to the digital world. Our touch screens treat the finger as a pointer and more or less ignore the thousands of mechanoreceptors within, not to mention the somatosensory cortex. This is an odd state of affairs. Dr. Colgate explained that part of the reason is technological: how do you go beyond simple vibrations and create versatile, programmable haptic experiences? Research in his lab has focused on solving this question for better than a decade now. In his talk, he explained the rapidly expanding capabilities of “surface haptic” technologies. Dr. Colgate also showed how limited are the data on haptics used to create great experiences, be they for education, entertainment, or elsewhere. That turns out to be a much more difficult problem. He described some incipient efforts and offered some thoughts for the future. This chapter provides a lightly edited transcription of that keynote.
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The author is grateful to the students and colleagues mentioned in this article as well as collaborators Michael Peshkin, Roberta Klatzky, Tom Royston, and Sliman Bensmaia. Much of the material presented here is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation grants number IIS-1302422 and IIS-1518602. Thank you to David Hoeft for videotaping the sessions.
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Colgate, J.E. (2019). Touching with Feeling. In: Hammond, T., Prasad, M., Stepanova, A. (eds) Inspiring Students with Digital Ink. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17398-2_12
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