Scope of ToH
IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) is a scholarly archival journal published quarterly that will address the science, technology and applications associated with information acquisition and object manipulation through touch. Haptic interactions relevant to this journal include all aspects of manual exploration and manipulation of objects by humans, machines and interactions between the two, performed in real, virtual, teleoperated or networked environments. Research areas of relevance to this publication will include, but not be limited to, the following topics:
- Human haptic and multi-sensory perception and action
- Aspects of motor control that explicitly pertain to human haptics
- Haptic interactions via passive or active tools and machines
- Devices that sense, enable, or create haptic interactions locally or at a distance
- Haptic rendering and its association with graphic and auditory rendering in virtual reality
- Algorithms, controls, and dynamics of haptic devices, users, and interactions between the two
- Human-machine performance and safety with haptic feedback
- Haptics in the context of human-computer interactions
- Systems and networks using haptic devices and interactions, including multi-modal feedback
- Application of the above, for example in areas such as education, rehabilitation, medicine, computer-aided design, skills training, computer games, driver controls, simulation and visualization
For submissions that do not unequivocally fall within one of these topic areas, authors are strongly encouraged to demonstrate the particular relevance of their work to haptics in a cover letter to the Editor-in-Chief and within the body of the paper. Relevance will be assessed by the Editors and Reviewers assigned to the paper.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
J. Edward Colgate - Northwestern University, USA
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Lynette Jones - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Domenico Prattichizzo - University of Siena, Italy
Associate Editors
Rick Adams - Barron Associates, Inc
Gabriel Baud-Bovy - Italian Institute of Technology
Wouter M. Bergmann Tiest - VU University Amsterdam
Seungmoon Choi - Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Manuel Cruz - Immersion Canada Inc
Knut Drewing - Giessen University
Martha Flanders - University of Minnesota, USA
Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad - Queen's University, Canada
Sandra Hirche - Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Roberta Klatzky - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Allison Okamura - Stanford University
Miguel A. Otaduy - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Dianne Pawluk - Virginia Commonwealth University
William Provancher - University of Utah
Jee-Hwan Ryu - Korea University of Technology and Education
Hiroyuki Shinoda - University of Tokyo, Japan
Contact Information
Editor-in-Chief
J. Edward Colgate
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Co-Director, Segal Design Institute
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: (847) 491-4264
Fax: (847) 491-3915
colgate@northwestern.edu
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Lynette Jones
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
ljones@mit.edu
Domenico Prattichizzo
Dept. of Information Engineering
University of Siena
via Roma 56, 53100 Siena, Italy
prattichizzo@ing.unisi.it
ToH Publication Coordinator
IEEE Computer Society
10662 Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, CA 90720, USA
EMAIL: TOH@computer.org
PHONE: +1.714.821.8380
FAX: +1.714.821.9975
ToH Management Committee
Chair—Reinhard Moeller, University of Wuppertal
IEEE Computer Society
Massimo Bergamasco, santAnna, School of Advanced Studies
Grigore Burdea, Rutgers University
David Ebert, Purdue University
Dinesh K. Pai, University of British Columbia
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Alessandro De Luca, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Pierre Dupont, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School
William S. Harwin, University of Reading
Robert Howe, Harvard University
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
Reinhard Moeller, University of Wuppertal
