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A longstanding goal of engineering has been to realize haptic interfaces that can convey realistic sensations of touch, comparable to signals presented via visual or audio displays. Today, this ideal remains far from realization, due to the difficulty of characterizing and electronically reproducing the complex and dynamic tactile signals that are produced during even the simplest touch interactions. In this talk, I will present my work on capturing whole-hand tactile signals, in the form of mechanical waves, produced during natural hand interactions. I will describe how I characterized the information content in these signals and used the results to guide the design of new electronic devices for distributed tactile feedback.
Yitian Shao (University of California, Santa Barbara)
PhD candidate
Yitian Shao is a PhD candidate in Communications and Signal Processing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is advised by Professor Yon Visell. His research interests include haptic engineering, wearable technologies, and virtual reality. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Tianjin University, China, in 2013 and his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019