Toward Comfortable Texture Design
June 22, 2015 at Northwestern University
Workshop on IEEE World Haptics Conference 2015
Objectives:
This workshop will discuss and design comfortable textures. It is composed of lectures, discussion,and a hands-on experience program of making various textures. Through this workshop, we expect that the participants will be interested in comfortable textures, understand the applicability and potentiality of comfortable textures, and have an idea for basic researches of comfort perception and applications into industrial products.
Significance and Impact:
In World Haptics Conference 2013, we successfully conducted a workshop on tactile feeling evaluations.
The present workshop focuses on comfort of textures. Comfortable textures add high value to products
by adding human-friendly and/or luxury feelings. But there are many issues to design comfortable textures:
how comfortable textures can be designed, whether there is a common physical factor among comfortable textures, etc.
Content:
The workshop will have mainly two sessions. First session provides a chance to discuss about comfort. Here, participants will bring their favorite comfortable materials, and explain feelings and reasons why they are selected. Second session provides a chance to have an idea for comfort design. We will prepare texture-making kits. Participants will enjoy creating their own textures and evaluate textures each other.
Texture making kit and procedure to use it
9:00-9:10 |
Introduction: motivation and objectivities of this workshop |
Y.Tanaka |
9:10-9:30 |
Lecture: tactile perceptual structure |
S.Okamoto |
9:30-10:15 |
Presentation of a comfortable texture by each participant* |
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10:15-10:30 |
(Breake Time) |
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10:30-12:10 |
Creation of own texture** |
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12:10-12:30 |
Discussion |
J.Watanabe |
* We will inform participants before the conference. We also welcome participants who do not bring materials but want only to listen.
** The numbers of the making kits are limited (about 30 sets). If participants are too many, we will make groups.
The workshop will be of general interest to industrial or academic researchers on tactile design, tactile devices, and haptic perception, and artist and educators who are not familiar with haptics but who wish to establish haptic design and possible applications. Students who will start haptic researches are also welcomed audience.
Yoshihiro Tanaka, Nagoya Institute of Technology / JST, PRESTO |
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Junji Watanabe, NTT Communication Science Laboratories / Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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Shogo Okamoto, Nagoya University |