An Online Survey on the Perception of Mediated Social Touch Interaction and Device Design
Casey Brown, Taylor Bunge, Chip Conor, Meiyuzi Gao, Benjamin Stephens-Fripp
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Ali Israr
Research Scientist
I am a research scientist with Facebook Reality Labs, investigating haptic sciences and technologies for AR/VR use cases. Previously I was leading haptic efforts in Facebook’s Building 8 and Disney Research Pittsburgh. I have received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
Interests
Haptic displays and systems, social touch, and multimodal user interactions
Latest Publications
IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH)
Data-driven sparse skin stimulation can convey social touch information to humans
Freddy Abnousi, Heather Culbertson, Keith Klumb, Frances Lau, Cara M. Nunez, Allison M. Okamura, Mike Salvato, Sophia R. Williams, Xin Zhu
Learning Vibes: Communication Bandwidth of a Single Wrist-Worn Vibrotactile Actuator
Elyse D. Z. Chase, Aakar Gupta, Jessica Hartcher-O’Brien, Pornthep Preechayasomboon, Sarah Sykes
A Multichannel Pneumatic Analog Control System for Haptic Displays
Benjamin Stephens-Fripp
A Flexible Spiraling-Metasurface as a Versatile Haptic Interface
Osama R. Bilal, Paolo Celli, Vincenzo Costanza, Chiara Daraio, Frances Lau, Antonio Palermo
Crossing the Chasm: Linking with the Virtual World through a Compact Haptic Actuator
Pornthep Preechayasomboon