The Virtual Teapot

The Virtual Teapot
mediaX at Stanford University - Mackenzie Room, Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center
Haptic (touch) feedback can play myriad roles in enhancing human performance and safety in skilled tasks. In tele-operated surgical robotics, force feedback improves the ability of a human operator to effectively manipulate and explore patient tissues that are remote in distance and scale. In virtual and augmented reality, wearable and touchable devices use combinations of kinesthetic (force) and cutaneous (tactile) feedback to make rich, immersive haptic feedback both more compelling and practical. In this talk, I will present a collection of novel haptic devices, control algorithms, and user performance studies that demonstrate a wide range of effective design approaches and promising real-world applications for haptic feedback.