Organizers: Hiroyuki Shinoda & Ali Israr
=Registration*=
*One registration fee of $100 (free for students) covers a full day of workshops and tutorials in WHC 2015
Opening
13:25-
Jun Rekimoto
The Univesity of Tokyo
13:30-14:00
The Future of Human Augmentation and the Role of Haptics
Masahiko Inami
Keio University
14:50-15:20
Physical Extension of Human Body by Controlled Sensory-Motor Coupling
Discussions
16:40-17:00
Workshop scope
Technology to support physical human motions through haptics is a next promising field in haptics. It is becoming realistic to assist various motions including intellectual actions in everyday life, body motions of an athlete, and skills of professional work through computational sensory aids even with collective intelligence. Use of haptics enables the motion support to be real-time and unconscious, providing new forms of communication and knowledge/skill sharing. In this workshop, we invite the world prominent researchers in the field of computational human augmentation and visualize the future of computational and networked physical aids. The workshop clarifies the upcoming research topics of haptics in terms of human ability augmentation.