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 Editor-in-Chiefs

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, Utrecht University

Seungmoon Choi, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea

Knut Drewing, Giessen University

Martha Flanders, University of Minnesota, USA

Danny Grant, Immersion

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

William Provancher, University of Utah

Hiroyuki Shinoda, University of Tokyo, Japan