4 papers
Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics
Ahad M. Rauf, Ran Zhou, Eric Acome +5
As haptic interfaces integrate more seamlessly into wearables and everyday environments, they increasingly require actuators that are soft, thin, silent, and energy efficient. Howe…
Otherness as a Quality in Designing Expressive Robotic Touch
Ran Zhou, Laurens Boer, Daniel Leithinger +1
Haptic technologies have advanced rapidly, yet exploration of robotic touch remains dominated by replicating realistic environmental cues or hand gestures, which narrows the design…
Winds Through Time: Interactive Data Visualization and Physicalization for Paleoclimate Communication
David Hunter, Pablo Botin, Emily Snode-Brenneman +9
We describe a multidisciplinary collaboration to iteratively design an interactive exhibit for a public science center on paleoclimate, the study of past climates. We created a dat…
Shape-Kit: A Design Toolkit for Crafting On-Body Expressive Haptics
Ran Zhou, Jianru Ding, Chenfeng Gao +5
Driven by the vision of everyday haptics, the HCI community is advocating for "design touch first" and investigating "how to touch well." However, a gap remains between the explora…