The course will introduce the foundations of haptics, discussing haptic perception, rendering, and interaction through interdisciplinary contributions encompassing the domains of psychology, neuroscience, engineering, robotics, ergonomics, design.

The students should have no particular knowledge of haptics. However, basic concepts on neurophysiology and/or interaction technologies could be helpful. The exercise will require basic knowledge of programming with MATLAB/Octave.

Teachers Giacinto Barresi (IIT), Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS) The course is organized as lessons with demonstrations based on portable devices for haptic stimulation and interaction, especially in Virtual and Mixed Reality settings. 9 hours of standard (frontal) lectures; 1 hour of exercise (using MATLAB or Octave). • Introduction to Haptics and Haptic Perception (CP) • Haptic Illusions (GB) • Haptic Interfaces (CP) • Haptics, Embodiment, and Enactive Processes (GB) • Haptic Rendering (CP) with Exercise • Haptics in Robotics and Virtual Reality (CP) • Haptics in Gaming (GB) • Haptics in Phygital Spaces (GB) • An exemplary project on Haptics: H-REALITY (CP) • Haptic Systems Design (GB) with Exercise Reading materials • Course slides • Selected papers and chapters of books like: - Pacchierotti, C., Sinclair, S., Solazzi, M., Frisoli, A., Hayward, V., & Prattichizzo, D. (2017). Wearable haptic systems for the fingertip and the hand: taxonomy, review, and perspectives. IEEE transactions on haptics, 10(4), 580-600. - Culbertson, H., Schorr, S. B., & Okamura, A. M. (2018). Haptics: The present and future of artificial touch sensation. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 1(1), 385-409. - Jones, L. (2018). Haptics. MIT press. - Van Beek, F. E. (2018). Making Sense of Haptics: Fundamentals of Perception and Implications for Device Design. Springer. - McDaniel, T., & Panchanathan, S. (Eds.). (2020). Haptic Interfaces for Accessibility, Health, and Enhanced Quality of Life. Springer. - Barresi, G., Marinelli, A., Caserta, G., De Zambotti, M., ... & De Michieli, L. (2021). Exploring the embodiment of a virtual hand in a spatially augmented respiratory biofeedback setting. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 15, 683653. - Dix, A., Gill, S., Ramduny-Ellis, D., & Hare, J. (2022). TouchIT: Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World. Oxford University Press. Assessment and grading criteria Each student will be asked to select and read a recent (2015+) paper on haptics. Their task will include describing the paper in a report based on a template provided by the teachers and on 3 slides for an ideal 3-minute pitch-like presentation. The assessment will be based on both report and presentation.

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P.D.1-1 - Gennaio

18/01/2023 (10-13) 19/01/2023 (10-12, 14-16) 20/01/2023 (10-13) Location: "Luigi Ciminiera" Conference Room Department of Control and Computer Engineering (5th floor)