Applied Haptics Laboratory’s homepage was open. http://ah.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp Future research activities will be introduced there.

Our research on EnhancedTouch project has been accepted by IEEE Haptics Symposium 2020! Taku Hachisu, Gregory Reardon, Yitian Shao, Kenji Suzuki, Yon Visell: Interpersonal Vibrotactile Feedback via Waves Transmitted through the Skin: Mechanics and Perception, in Proceedings of IEEE Haptics Symposium (HS) 2020, Washington, DC, USA, Mar. 28-31, 2020.

Our work on EnhancedTouch (smart bracelet for augmenting interpersonal touch) has been accepted for publication in a future issue of IEEE Transactions on Haptics! Taku Hachisu, Kenji Suzuki:Representing Interpersonal Touch Directions by Tactile Apparent Motion using Smart Bracelets,IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. x, no. x, pp. xx-xx, 2019.

I will present my work-in-progress at UC Santa Barbara. I will also appear as a conference publicity chair. Taku Hachisu, Yitian Shao, Kenji Suzuki, Yon Visell:Empirical Study on Transfer Functions from Wrists to Hands,in Proceedings of IEEE World Haptics Conference 2019 (Work-in-Progress), Tokyo, Japan, Jun. 9-12, 2019.

Our research, EnhancedTouchX, an improved version of EnhancedTouch, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2019. Taku Hachisu, Baptiste Bourreau, Kenji Suzuki: EnhancedTouchX: Smart Bracelets for Augmenting Interpersonal Touch Interactions, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2019, […]

We presented a wearable device for measuring interpersonal touch, EnhancedTouch, as an invited demonstration at AsiaHaptics2018. The videos are available at YouTube. Taku Hachisu, Kenji Suzuki: Smart Bracelets to Represent Directions of Social Touch with Tactile Apparent Motion, in Proceedings of AsiaHaptics 2018, Incheon, Korea, Nov. 14-16, 2018.

Our research, FaceLooks, the study on a wearable device to measure face-to-face behavior, has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the MDPI Sensors. Taku Hachisu, Yadong Pan, Soichiro Matsuda, Baptiste Bourreau, Kenji Suzuki: FaceLooks: a Smart Headband for Signaling Face-to-Face Behavior, Sensors, vol. 18, no. 7, 2066, 2018.

Our research, VisuaLiftStudio, the study conducted when I belonged to the University of Electro-Communications, has been accepted for publication in a future issue of the Transactions of Virtual Reality Society of Japan. It is a Japanese journal, but the paper is written in English. Taku Hachisu, Masahiro Koge, Hiroyuki Kajimoto: VisuaLiftStudio: Using an Elevator as a […]