We invite journalists to cover Eurohaptics 2018. Photography and filming will be allowed on site.
Eurohaptics 2018 with more than 400 participants is the biggest haptics event of 2018 and it is expected to be the most attended Eurohaptics series conference. The main conference will take place on June 13th-16th, 2018 at Palazzo dei Congressi di Pisa (Pisa Congress Palace), Italy.
What is haptics? Haptics is a field of knowledge covering all aspects of the human sense of touch and its engineering applications in mobile communication, computer interfaces, virtual reality, assistive devices, robotics, medical technology and training, education, arts and many other domains. Haptic technology article @Wiikipedia
The conference will feature keynote talks by world-renowned researchers, a haptics exhibit hall including hands-on demonstrations and company stands, oral and posters sessions, industry talks. A press package will be provided on this website closer to the conference date.
Journalists may request a free press pass by emailing contact@eurohaptics2018.org.
History and geography of Eurohaptics conferences. The Eurohaptics conference was incepted in 2001, Birmingham, UK and was held in Edinburgh, UK; Dublin, Ireland; and Munich, Germany before joining the IEEE Haptics Symposium every other year to form the WorldHaptics Conference (Pisa, Italy; Tsukuba, Japan; Salt Lake City, USA; Istanbul, Turkey; Daejeon, South Korea; Chicago, USA; Fürstenfeldbruck (Munich), Germany). In the alternate years, Eurohaptics was held in Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Tampere, Finland, Versailles, France, and London, UK. Detailed information about the previous conferences can be found here.