Publications

Haptic Intelligence Article Comparing Puncture-Detection Approaches for Manual Needle Insertions Through the Parietal Pleura L’Orsa, R., Zareinia, K., Sutherland, G. R., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, April 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Enhancing Needle Puncture Detection Using High-Pass Filtering and Diffuse Reflectance L’Orsa, R., Bisht, A., Yu, L., Murari, K., Sutherland, G., Westwick, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, March 2025, Accepted (Accepted) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Wrist-to-Wrist Bioimpedance Can Reliably Detect Discrete Self-Touch Forte, M., Vardar, Y., Javot, B., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 74(4006511):1-11, February 2025 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Wearable Electrohydraulic Actuation for Salient Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback Shao, Y., Shagan Shomron, A., Javot, B., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, (2401525):1-12, January 2025, Yitian Shao and Alona Shagan Shomron contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotic Materials Article Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues Sanchez-Tamayo, N., Yoder, Z., Rothemund, P., Ballardini, G., Keplinger, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Science, 11(48):1-14, December 2024, This article was selected for the inside front cover. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202470295 (Published) Video DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Simulation Training with Haptic Feedback of Instrument Vibrations Reduces Resident Workload During Live Robot-Assisted Sleeve Gastrectomy Gomez, E. D., Mat Husin, H., Dumon, K. R., Williams, N. N., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, December 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Sleeve Alters the Pressure-Stretch Curve of a Hyperelastic Balloon to Enable Pre-Programmed Sequencing Gertler, I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Advanced Materials Technologies, :1-11, November 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Building Instructions You Can Feel: Edge-Changing Haptic Devices for Digitally Guided Construction Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales Rodriguez, T., Javot, B., Tahouni, Y., Cheng, T., Wood, D., Menges, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, October 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Empirical Inference Optics and Sensing Laboratory Software Workshop Article Fiber-Optic Shape Sensing Using Neural Networks Operating on Multispecklegrams Cao, C. G. L., Javot, B., Bhattarai, S., Bierig, K., Oreshnikov, I., Volchkov, V. V. IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(17):27532-27540, September 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Fingertip Dynamic Response Simulated Across Excitation Points and Frequencies Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 23(4):1369-1376, August 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Intelligent Control Systems Article Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test Khojasteh, B., Solowjow, F., Trimpe, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 21(3):4432-4447, July 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article AiroTouch: Enhancing Telerobotic Assembly through Naturalistic Haptic Feedback of Tool Vibrations Gong, Y., Mat Husin, H., Erol, E., Ortenzi, V., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11(1355205):1-15, May 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Closing the Loop in Minimally Supervised Human-Robot Interaction: Formative and Summative Feedback Mohan, M., Nunez, C. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Scientific Reports, 14(10564):1-18, May 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article IMU-Based Kinematics Estimation Accuracy Affects Gait Retraining Using Vibrotactile Cues Rokhmanova, N., Pearl, O., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Halilaj, E. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 32:1005-1012, February 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article How Should Robots Exercise with People? Robot-Mediated Exergames Win with Music, Social Analogues, and Gameplay Clarity Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Preston, R. C., Johnson, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10(1155837):1-18, January 2024 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Robust Surface Recognition With the Maximum Mean Discrepancy: Degrading Haptic-Auditory Signals Through Bandwidth and Noise Khojasteh, B., Shao, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 17(1):58-65, January 2024, Presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Towards Semi-Automated Pleural Cavity Access for Pneumothorax in Austere Environments L’Orsa, R., Lama, S., Westwick, D., Sutherland, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Acta Astronautica, 212:48-53, November 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Perceiving Systems Article Learning to Estimate Palpation Forces in Robotic Surgery From Visual-Inertial Data Lee, Y., Mat Husin, H., Forte, M., Lee, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 5(3):496-506, August 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Autonomous Learning Empirical Inference Article Minsight: A Fingertip-Sized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation Andrussow, I., Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 5(8):2300042, August 2023, Inside back cover (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article In the Arms of a Robot: Designing Autonomous Hugging Robots with Intra-Hug Gestures Block, A. E., Seifi, H., Hilliges, O., Gassert, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 12(2):1-49, June 2023, Special Issue on Designing the Robot Body: Critical Perspectives on Affective Embodied Interaction (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Effects of Automated Skill Assessment on Robotic Surgery Training Brown, J. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 19(2):e2492, April 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Haptify: A Measurement-Based Benchmarking System for Grounded Force-Feedback Devices Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2):1622-1636, April 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article The S-BAN: Insights into the Perception of Shape-Changing Haptic Interfaces via Virtual Pedestrian Navigation Spiers, A. J., Young, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(1):1-31, March 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Empirical Inference Article Predicting the Force Map of an ERT-Based Tactile Sensor Using Simulation and Deep Networks Lee, H., Sun, H., Park, H., Serhat, G., Javot, B., Martius, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 20(1):425-439, January 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article The Utility of Synthetic Reflexes and Haptic Feedback for Upper-Limb Prostheses in a Dexterous Task Without Direct Vision Thomas, N., Fazlollahi, F., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Brown, J. D. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 31:169-179, January 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Generating Clear Vibrotactile Cues with a Magnet Embedded in a Soft Finger Sheath Gertler, I., Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Soft Robotics, 10(3):624-635, June 2023 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Learning to Feel Textures: Predicting Perceptual Similarities from Unconstrained Finger-Surface Interactions Richardson, B. A., Vardar, Y., Wallraven, C., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(4):705-717, October 2022, Benjamin A. Richardson and Yasemin Vardar contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Contact Evolution of Dry and Hydrated Fingertips at Initial Touch Serhat, G., Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. PLOS ONE, 17(7):e0269722, July 2022, Gokhan Serhat and Yasemin Vardar contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Perceptual Space of Algorithms for Three-to-One Dimensional Reduction of Realistic Vibrations Lee, H., Tombak, G. I., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(3):521-534, July 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Normal and Tangential Forces Combine to Convey Contact Pressure During Dynamic Tactile Stimulation Gueorguiev, D., Lambert, J., Thonnard, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Scientific Reports, 12:8215, May 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Predicting Knee Adduction Moment Response to Gait Retraining with Minimal Clinical Data Rokhmanova, N., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Shull, P. B., Ferber, R., Halilaj, E. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(5):e1009500, May 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Design of Interactive Augmented Reality Functions for Robotic Surgery and Evaluation in Dry-Lab Lymphadenectomy Forte, M., Gourishetti, R., Javot, B., Engler, T., Gomez, E. D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 18(2):e2351, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Robotics Article Endowing a NAO Robot with Practical Social-Touch Perception Burns, R. B., Lee, H., Seifi, H., Faulkner, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 9:840335, April 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Autonomous Learning Haptic Intelligence Article A Soft Thumb-Sized Vision-Based Sensor with Accurate All-Round Force Perception Sun, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Martius, G. Nature Machine Intelligence, 4(2):135-145, February 2022 (Published) Paper DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Adaptive Optimal Measurement Algorithm for ERT-Based Large-Area Tactile Sensors Park, K., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Kim, J. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(1):304-314, February 2022 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of Vibrotactile Output from a Rotating Motor Actuator Gourishetti, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 15(1):39-44, January 2022, Presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Virtual Reality Treatment Displaying the Missing Leg Improves Phantom Limb Pain: A Small Clinical Trial Ambron, E., Buxbaum, L. J., Miller, A., Stoll, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Coslett, H. B. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 35(12):1100-1111, December 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article A Brake-Based Overground Gait Rehabilitation Device for Altering Propulsion Impulse Symmetry Hu, S., Fjeld, K., Vasudevan, E. V., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Sensors, 21(19), October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Robotics for Occupational Therapy: Learning Upper-Limb Exercises From Demonstrations Hu, S., Mendonca, R., Johnson, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4):7781-7788, October 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Piezoresistive Textile Layer and Distributed Electrode Structure for Soft Whole-Body Tactile Skin Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Smart Materials and Structures, 30(8):085036, July 2021, Hyosang Lee and Kyungseo Park contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Free and Forced Vibration Modes of the Human Fingertip Serhat, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Applied Sciences, 11(12):5709, June 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Optimizing a Viscoelastic Finite Element Model to Represent the Dry, Natural, and Moist Human Finger Pressing on Glass Nam, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 14(2):303-309, IEEE, May 2021, Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Multi-Sensory Guidance and Feedback for Simulation-Based Training in Robot Assisted Surgery: A Preliminary Comparison of Visual, Haptic, and Visuo-Haptic Caccianiga, G., Mariani, A., Galli de Paratesi, C., Menciassi, A., De Momi, E. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2):3801-3808, April 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Finger Motion and Contact by a Second Finger Influence the Tactile Perception of Electrovibration Vardar, Y., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(176):20200783, March 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Getting in Touch with Children with Autism: Specialist Guidelines for a Touch-Perceiving Robot Burns, R. B., Seifi, H., Lee, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1):115-135, January 2021 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Using a Variable-Friction Robot Hand to Determine Proprioceptive Features for Object Classification During Within-Hand-Manipulation Spiers, A. J., Morgan, A. S., Srinivasan, K., Calli, B., Dollar, A. M. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 13(3):600-610, July 2020 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Physical Variables Underlying Tactile Stickiness during Fingerpad Detachment Nam, S., Vardar, Y., Gueorguiev, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14:235, April 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Exercising with Baxter: Preliminary Support for Assistive Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Johnson, M. J. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 17:1-22, February 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Learning to Predict Perceptual Distributions of Haptic Adjectives Richardson, B. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 13:1-16, February 2020 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Compensating for Fingertip Size to Render Tactile Cues More Accurately Young, E. M., Gueorguiev, D., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Pacchierotti, C. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 13(1):144-151, January 2020, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker and Claudio Pacchierotti contributed equally to this publication. Presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) (Published) DOI BibTeX

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