University of Utah
Haptics is the science and technology of touch. This talk will introduce how humans perceive touch and how engineers seek to measure, reproduce, and use it in interactions with machines and robots. Drawing on examples from haptics and human-robot interaction, I will discuss how touch can be used to communicate information, guide movement, and shape the way people experience technology. More broadly, the talk will consider what the study of haptics can teach us about the complexity of human touch and the challenges involved in recreating it through technology.