Organising Committee

General chair
Antonio Frisoli (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Workshops/tutorials co-chairs
Vincent Hayward (Pierre et Marie Curie University, France)
Jee-Hwan Ryu (Korea University of Technology and Education, South Korea)

WIP/posters co-chairs
Hirouyki Kajimoto (University of Electro-Communications Tokyo, Japan)
Marc Ernst (Ulm University, Germany)

Awards committee co-chairs
Massimo Bergamasco (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Antonio Bicchi (University of Pisa, Italy)

Industry and sponsorship co-chairs
Carlo Alberto Avizzano (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Manuel Ferre (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

Hands-on-demos/Exhibits chair
Massimiliano Solazzi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Finance chair
Claudio Loconsole (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)

Publicity/media and website co-chairs
Claudio Loconsole (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Ildar Farkhatdinov (Imperial College London, UK)

Publications chair
Emanuele Ruffaldi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Student volunteers co-chairs
Daniele Leonardis (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Matteo Bianchi (University of Pisa)

Local arrangements co-chairs
Daniele Leonardis (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Michele Barsotti (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Claudio Loconsole (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Massimiliano Solazzi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)

Advisory Committee

Ed Colgate (Northwestern University, United States)
Jan Van Erp (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Yasuyoshi Yokokohji (Kobe University, Japan)
Seungmoon Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea)
Hong Tan (Purdue University, United States)

Programme Committee

Program co-chairs
Domenico Prattichizzo (University of Siena, Italy)
Hiroyuki Shinoda (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Hong Tan (Purdue University, United States)

Haptic Science
Andrea Bianchi (KAIST, South Korea)
Matteo Bianchi (University of Pisa, Italy)
Heather Culbertson (University of Southern California, United States)
Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Marc Ernst (Ulm University, Germany)
Jessica Hartcher (TU Delft, Netherlands)
Astrid Kappers (VU University, Netherlands)
Scinob Kuroki (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)
Masashi Nakatani (Keio University, Japan)
Shogo Okamoto (The Nagoya University, Japan)
Kyle B. Reed (University of South Florida, United States)
Oliver Schneider (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany)
Jan van Erp (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Qi Wang (Columbia University, United States)
Junji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan)

Haptic Technology
Kaspar Althoefer (King’s College London, UK)
Seungmoon Choi (POSTECH, South Korea)
Brent Gillespie (University of Michigan, USA)
Hiroyuki Kajimoto (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Vincent Lévesque (École de technologie supérieure, Canada)
Claudio Loconsole (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Monica Malvezzi (University of Siena, Italy)
Leonardo Meli (University of Siena, Italy)
Kouta Minamizawa (Keio University, Japan)
Marcia K. O’Malley (Rice University, USA)
Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS, France)
Evren Samur (Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Massimiliano Solazzi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy)
Michael Wiertlewski (CNRS, France)

Haptic Applications
David Abbink (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Cagatay Basdogan (Koc University, Turkey)
Manuel Cruz (Immersion Corporation, Canada)
Ildar Farkhatdinov (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Francesco Ferrise (Polytechnic Of Milan, Italy)
Rafael Morales Gonzàlez (Università Paris-Sud)
Matthias Harders (ETH, Switzerland)
Yang Jiao (Purdue University, United States)
Ayse Kucukyilmaz (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom)
Yoshihiro Kuroda (Osaka University, Japan)
Yasutoshi Makino (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Sabrina Panëels (CEA, France)
Angelika Peer (Free University of Bolzano Italy)
Yoshihiro Tanaka (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)