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SUMMARY:Realistic and Intuitive Haptic Feedback for Communication in Virtu
 al and Real-World Environments
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Heather Culbertson\, Department of Mechanical Engineering 
 - Stanford University - USA\nThe haptic (touch) sensations felt when inter
 acting with the physical world create a rich and varied impression of obje
 cts and their environment. Humans are capable of gathering a significant a
 mount of information through touch with their environment\, allowing them 
 to assess object properties and qualities\, dexterously handle objects\, a
 nd communicate social cues and emotions. Humans are spending significantly
  more time in the digital world\, however\, and are increasingly interacti
 ng with people and objects through a digital medium. Unfortunately\, digit
 al interactions remain unsatisfying and limited\, representing the human a
 s having only two sensory inputs: visual and auditory.\n\nThis talk will f
 ocus on the investigation of haptic devices and rendering algorithms to pr
 ovide humans with touch information when communicating through a computer.
  I will present a background on the sense of touch\, and illustrate how we
  can leverage this knowledge in order to design haptic devices and renderi
 ng systems that allow the human to communicate through the digital world i
 n a natural and intuitive way. I will highlight contributions I have made 
 in furthering haptic realism in virtual reality through the creation of hi
 ghly realistic virtual objects. These objects are created by modeling high
 -frequency acceleration\, force\, and speed data recorded during physical 
 interactions and displaying the appropriate haptic signals during renderin
 g. I will then describe advances I have made in novel wearable haptic devi
 ces for communicating information to a human using intuitive and natural c
 ues.\n \nBio:\nHeather Culbertson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in th
 e Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University where she wo
 rks in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab. She
  received her PhD in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied 
 Mechanics (MEAM) at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 working in the 
 Haptics Group\, part of the General Robotics\, Automation\, Sensing and Pe
 rception (GRASP) Laboratory. She completed a Masters in MEAM at the Univer
 sity of Pennsylvania in May of 2013\, and earned a BS degree in mechanical
  engineering at the University of Nevada\, Reno in 2010.\n 
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