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Awards presented by Dinesh Pai, Awards Chair (Awards Presentation)

Award Sponsors

Immersion Corporation
  Best Paper: Haptics Science ($1000)
   
Force Dimension
  Best Paper: Haptics Technology ($1000)
   
SensAble Technologies
  Best Student Paper Award (Phantom Omni Kit)
   
IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics
  Best Demo

 

Best Paper: Haptics Technology

Finalists
Measuring and Increasing Z-width with Active Electrical Damping
David Weir, J. Ed Colgate, M. A. Peshkin

Large Workspace Haptic Devices - A New Actuation Approach
Michael Zinn, Oussama Khatib, Bernard Roth, J. Kenneth Salisbury

Winner
Large Workspace Haptic Devices - A New Actuation Approach
Michael Zinn, Oussama Khatib, Bernard Roth, J. Kenneth Salisbury

Best Paper: Haptics Science

Finalists
The Role of Choice in Longitudinal Recall of Meaningful Tactile Signals
Mario Enriquez Karon MacLean

Characterizing Teleoperator Behavior for Feedback Design and Performance Analysis
Paul Griffiths, Brent Gillespie

Winner
The Role of Choice in Longitudinal Recall of Meaningful Tactile Signals
Mario Enriquez Karon MacLean

Best Student Paper

Finalists
Comparison of Skin Stretch and Vibrotactile Stimulation for Feedback of Proprioceptive Information
Karlin Bark, Jason Wheeler, Sunthar Premakumar, Mark Cutkosky

Data-Driven Haptic Rendering of Visco-Elastic Effects
Raphael Hoever, Matthias Harders, Gabor Szekely

Winner
Comparison of Skin Stretch and Vibrotactile Stimulation for Feedback of Proprioceptive Information
Karlin Bark, Jason Wheeler, Sunthar Premakumar, Mark Cutkosky

Best Demo

Tactile Graphics Rendering
Vincent Levesque, Andrew H. C. Gosline, and Vincent Hayward