Awards

The following awards will be assigned during the conference:

  • Best paper award (1,000€) sponsored by Springer;

    • Award Board
      • O’MALLEY MARCIA, Rice University (US)
      • COLGATE ED, Tanvas Inc /Northwester University (US)
    • Finalists
      • Travelling Ultrasonic Wave Enhances Keyclick Sensation David Gueorguiev, Anis Kaci, Michel Amberg, Frédéric Giraud, and Betty Semail
      • Localisation of Vibrotactile Stimuli with Spatio-Temporal Inverse Filtering Charles Hudin and Sabrina Panëels
      • Haptic Saliency Model for Rigid Textured Surfaces Anna Metzger, Matteo Toscani, Matteo Valsecchi, and Knut Drewing
    • Winner
      • “Haptic Saliency Model for Rigid Textured Surfaces”
        Anna Metzger, Matteo Toscani, Matteo Valsecchi, and Knut Drewing

 

  • Best student paper award sponsored by Haption;

    • Award Board
      • O’MALLEY MARCIA, Rice University (US)
      • COLGATE ED, Tanvas Inc /Northwester University (US)
    • Finalists
      • Influence of Different Types of Prior Knowledge on Haptic Exploration of Soft Objects Aaron Cedric Zöller, Alexandra Lezkan, Vivian C Paulun, Roland W. Fleming, and Knut Drewing
      • Overcoming fingertip friction variability with surface haptics force-feedback Nicolas Huloux, Jocelyn Monnoyer, Marc Boyron, and Michael Wiertlewski
      • Harmonious textures: The perceptual dimensions of synthetic sinusoidal gratings Corentin Bernard, Jocelyn Monnoyer, and Michael Wiertlewski
    • Winner
      • “Overcoming fingertip friction variability with surface haptics force-feedback”
        Nicolas Huloux, Jocelyn Monnoyer, Marc Boyron, and Michael Wiertlewski

 

  • Best Work-In-Progress (WIP) award sponsored by 3D Systems.

    • Award Board
      • CHOI SEUNGMOON, Postech
      • GILLESPIE BRENT, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)
      • HARWIN WILLIAM, University of Reading
    • Finalists
      • Portable 2DoF force display gadget realized by ‘anisotropic rigidity bridging’
        Hiroaki Gomi, Sho Ito
      • Finger pad mechanics during object lifting
        Félicien Schiltz, Allan Barrea, Jean-Louis Thonnard, Philippe Lefevre
      • Experimental Evaluation of Contact Mechanics for Electrovibration Omer Sirin, Allan Barrea, Philippe Lefevre, Jean-Louis Thonnard , Cagatay Basdogan
    • Winner
      • Finger pad mechanics during object lifting
        Félicien Schiltz, Allan Barrea, Jean-Louis Thonnard, Philippe Lefevre

 

  • Best hands-on-demo award sponsored by Force Dimension;

    • Award Board
      • MINAMIZAWA KOUTA Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Yokohama (JP)
      • RYU JEE HWAN Mechanical Engineering, Koreatech, Cheonan (KR)
      • KAPPERS ASTRID Human Movements Sciences, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL)
    • Finalists
      • Tactile Apparent Motion through Human-Human Physical Touch
        Taku Hachisu, Kenji Suzuki
      • “HaptiComm”, a Tactile Stimulation Device for Deafblind Communication
        Basil Duvernoy, Sven Topp, Vincent Hayward
      • A Novel FerroFluid-based Fingertip Tactile Display for Concurrently Displaying
        Textire and Geometric Perception
        Harsimran Singh, Bhivraj Suthar, Syed Zain Mehdi, Sang-Goo Jeong, Jee-Hwan Ryu
      • Haptic Braille Display for Blind
        Daniele Leonaradis, Claudio Loconsole, Antonio Frisoli
    • Winner
      • “HaptiComm” a Tactile Stimulation Device for Deafblind Communication
        Basil Duvernoy, Sven Topp, Vincent Hayward

 

  • Best poster award sponsored by Immersion;

    • Award Board
      • BIANCHI MATTEO University of Pisa
      • PACCHIEROTTI CLAUDIO CNRS at Irisa and Inria Rennes
    • Finalists
      • “A tangible surface for digital sculpting in virtual environments”
        Edouard Callens, Fabien Danieau, Antoine Costes, Philippe Guillotel
      • “A pilot study: introduction of time-domain segment to intensity-based perception model of high-frequency vibration”
        Nan Cao, Hikaru Nagano, Masashi Konyo, Shogo Okamoto, Satoshi Tadokoro
      • “Judged roughness as a function of groove frequency and groove width in 3D-printed gratings”
        Knut Drewing
    • Winner
      • “A Pilot Study: Introduction of Time-domain Segment to Intensity-based Perception Model of High-frequency Vibration”
        Nan Cao, Hikaru Nagano, Masashi Konyo, Shogo Okamoto, Satoshi Tadokoro