Program

09:00 to 09:10 Welcome address by V. Hayward

09:10 to 10:10 S. Lederman Key Note

10:10 to 10:30 A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic User Interfaces Mohamad Eid; Abdelwahab Hamam; Abed El Saddik and Nicolas Georganas University of Ottawa

10:30 to 11:00 Break (Coffee)

11:00 to 11:20 Direct Haptic Rendering For Large Datasets With High Gradients Bob Ménélas; Nicolas Fauvet; Mehdi Ammi; Patrick Bourdot University of Paris, France

11:20 to 11:40 Haptography: Capturing the Feel of Real Objects to Enable Authentic Haptic Rendering Katherine JKuchenbecker University of Pennsylvania

11:40 to 12:00 Evalutation of UML CASE Tool with Haptics Mohamad Eid; Abed El Saddik and Atif Alamri University of Ottawa

12:00 to 13:00 Lunch

13:00 to 13:20 A Framework for Building Haptic Interactions for Teleoperation Systems Huynh Phong,Italian Institute of Technology; Mehdi University of Paris; Patrick Bourdot University of Paris; Jean-Guy Fontaine Italian Institute of Technology

13:20 to 13:40 Bringing Haptics to Second Life; Maurizio de Pascale; Sara Mulatto; Domenico Prattichizzo University of Sienna, Italy

13:40 to 14:00 Integration of RFID and Computer Vision for Remote Object Perception for Individuals Who Are Blind Troy L McDaniel; Kanav Kahol; Sethuraman Panchanathan Arizona State University

14:00 to 14:20 Designing a Model Human Cochlea: Issues and challenges in crossmodal audio to touch displays Maria Karam Ryerson University

14:20 to 14:40 Preliminary design of rowing simulator for in-door skill training Antonio Frisoli PERCRO Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
14:40 to 15:30 Keynote Dr Sethuraman Panchanathan Implications of Multimodality in Ambient Interfaces

We look forward to seeing you all in february...