Updated: 16-Jan.-2009
March 24-26 (Thursday-Friday), 2010
held in conjunction with IEEE Virtual Reality
at the Westin Hotel
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA (Boston Area)
| Important Dates & Information | |
| Submission information posted: | Summer 2009 |
| Papers due : | September 2009 |
| Conference dates: | March 24-26, 2010 |
| Conference topics and description: | See below |
Once again the Haptics Symposium will be held in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality conference, which also features some haptics-relevant research. We look forward to working with the VR co-chairs to create the most exciting Haptics Symposium yet.
Waltham is part of the culturally and scientifically rich Boston metropolitan area. The venue is near Cambridge and environs with its many haptics companies and academic researchers, at universities including MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Tufts and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Conference Description
The Haptics Symposium is an annual, single-track conference that brings together researchers in diverse engineering and human science disciplines who are interested in the design, analysis, and evaluation of systems that display haptic (force and touch) information to human operators. High quality, original papers are solicited in all areas of haptics. The papers are peer reviewed, and accepted papers are selected for either oral or poster presentation. Papers have the option of being published in the IEEE proceedings. Industry-sponsored awards are given. Short sketch papers are also sought. Sketches are extended abstracts with significant or new but possibly incomplete ideas and results, and are eligible for poster presentation only. Hands-on demonstrations (with abstract) and company exhibits are also solicited.
This symposium aims to bring together the diverse disciplines that will contribute to advances in the field of haptics, including biomechanics, psychology, neurophysiology, engineering, and computer science. Topics of interest include, and are not limited to:
Areas of application include, but are by no means limited to: Teleoperation (e.g., space exploration, undersea operations, microsurgery and minimally-invasive surgery, hazardous waste clean- up) and Virtual Environments (e.g., critical procedure training, computer-aided design and prototyping, data visualization, human- computer interaction, and rehabilitation).
The Haptics Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC), and is affiliated with the Technical Committee on Haptics (www.worldhaptics.org). It is held in conjunction with the 2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference .
