IEEE Transactions on Haptics is now accepting submissions through Manuscript Central
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Featured Article from the January-June Issue
Here is a simple demonstration that illustrates how haptic perception is both quite remarkable and quite under-appreciated: Reach into your pocket or handbag and extract from the clutter therein without looking, mind you, a bill, or a coin, or a set of keys. Even better, locate your car’s key fob, find the unlock button and push it’still without looking. Did you succeed? Of course you did. Using a key fob is surely no feat of prestidigitation; yet, it merits our thoughtful consideration. Over 20 years ago, Susan Lederman and Roberta Klatzky showed that humans could use haptics to identify common objects quickly and accurately, and that haptic perception was subserved by a stereotypical set of "exploratory procedures" including enclosure, lateral motion, pressure, contour following, and others. These exploratory procedures are enabled by a hand having some twenty-odd degrees of freedom and tens of thousands of mechanoreceptors, not to mention the vast resources of the central nervous system.
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About the Journal
IEEE Transactions on Haptics 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 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
- 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
The Transactions will be published bi-annually in its first year, with the first issue to premiered in the second half of 2008.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Open ended
ToH accepts regular, short and survey papers, as well as brief communications. Papers may be submitted online via:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/th-cs Detailed information regarding manuscript submission can be found on the ToH author page.
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ambient Haptic Systems
Ambient systems employ devices that are seamlessly integrated in a user's environment, providing unobtrusive and interactive access to digital media. These devices, when networked in systems of sensors, actuators, and computational units, can support intelligent, adaptive machine behavior.
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