ho Haptics lab
Ho Haptics Lab is an interdisciplinary research lab based in the School of Design, Kyushu University at Fukuoka, Japan. This lab researches human sensory information processing, with a special focus on touch. We aim to understand how humans perceive, understand, and make decisions about the external world and communicate with others by TOUCH, and apply the knowledge to human interface design.
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2024.1 M1 student Aika Yamashita's study "遠隔ビデオ通話における振動フィードバックの共同作業感への影響/The Impact of Vibratory Feedback on the Sense of Collaboration in Remote Video Calls" is accepted as a Premium interactive paper in Interaction 2024.
2023.12 Our paper is published in TVRSJ. Kameyama, N., Murata, A., Watanabe, J., Ho, H.-N. (2023) "Influence of touching heartbeat on emotional state and interpersonal closeness," Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 28 (4), pp. 321-324, https://doi.org/10.18974/tvrsj.28.4_321.
2023.12 Prof. Ho presented "Exploring the Relationship between Thermal Property and Mental Representation of Material Categories" at the 42nd Japanese Psychonomic Society meeting (日本基礎心理学会第42回大会).
2023.11 Prof. Ho will be an invited speaker at Symposium 2 'Tactile and Bodily Sensation Psychophysics' at the 42nd Japanese Psychonomic Society meeting (日本基礎心理学会第42回大会).
2023.11 Takuya Jodai, Naoki Kameyama, Rina Muroyama, and Riko Kuwajima presented their research projects in ハプティクス研究委員会 第31回研究会.
2023.10. Prof. Ho serves as a Guest Editor of the Special Session of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics that will publish papers presented at the IEEE 2024 Haptics Symposium.
2023.10. We welcome Mizuki Hamaguchi from the University of Electro-Communications to have short-term research in our lab.
2023.9 M1 student Aika Yamashita will present the research "Assessing Emotional Sharing Using Air-Transmit Haptic Communication Device" at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.
2023.8 Prof. Ho serves as a guest editor for VR学会論文誌 第29巻第1号 「VR心理学9」
2023.7 Prof. Ho received the "Best Associate Editors Award" at World Haptics 2023
2023.7 Prof. Ho presented "Determination of the Thermal-tactile Simultaneity Window for Multisensory Cutaneous Displays," World Haptics 2023, Delft, Netherlands, July 10-13 2023.
2023.6 Prof. Ho serves as a program committee member for The 9th Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Computer-Human Interaction
2023.4 The Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces Workshop was successfully conducted at CHI 2023, with Prof. Ho serving as one of the organizers.
2023.4 Our paper "Determination of the Thermal-tactile Simultaneity Window for Multisensory Cutaneous Displays" is accepted as for presentation as a technical paper at the WHC 2023.
2023.3 B4 students Kameyama san and Yamashita san presented their works in 第 202回 ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション研究会.
2023.2. Prof. Ho serves as a program committee member for the IEEE World Haptics Conference 2023.
2023.1. Prof. Ho serves as an organizer for Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces Workshop at CHI 2023.
2023.1 Kazuaki Harada, one of the best-known automata artists in Japan, gave a special lecture at 'Creative Prototyping Exercise,' the course taught by Prof Ho, Prof. Ushiama and Prof. Takenouchi, on January 17.
2023.1 "Event & Activity" and "Teaching" pages are added to the HP.
2022.12 B3 students Kuwajima san and Muroyama san joined Ho Hpatics Lab.
2022.12 Prof. Ho presented her research at GEIKO EXPO 2022.
2022.12 The paper "Tracking Changes in Touch Desire and Touch Avoidance before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak" is published in Frontiers in Psychology, section Personality and Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1016909.
2022.11 Takuya Jodai, Naoki Kameyama, Atsu Nishimura, and Aika Yamashita presented their research projects in ハプティクス研究委員会 第29回研究会.
2022.11 Ho Haptics Lab welcomes international students from Taiwan and Indonesia for Geiko winter school.
2022.10 Prof. Ho had a conversation with the artist Yung An Wang on《Thermal Perception ResearchＸ Neuroscience Art Creation》.
2022.9 We presented our new study "Physiological and Psychological Effects of Body Projection Mapping" at the 27th Annual Conference of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan.
2022.8 Our new paper "The Effect of Temperature on Tactile Softness Perception" is published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. Tan, Z.Y., Choo, C.M., Lin, Y., Ho, H.-N. & Kitada, R. (2022) "The Effect of Temperature on Tactile Softness Perception," IEEE Transactions on Haptics <link>.
2022.7 Prof. Ho's new article "質感と感性コミュニケーションに大事な温度感覚" is published in Psychology World. https://psych.or.jp/publication/world098/pw08
2022.6 Our paper "Incorporating Thermal Feedback in Cutaneous Displays: Reconciling Temporal and Spatial Disparities " is accepted by the 11th International Workshop on Haptic & Audio Interaction Design, which will be held in London, UK in August 2022.
2022.4 Ho Haptics Lab is awarded this year's Hayashi-ULVAC MISTI Seed Fund from MIT MISTI program for the research on cutaneous displays.
2022.4 Prof. Ho's interview at the science podcast program "Sky in the wall" on her research and career experiences (in Mandarin Chinese) is available online.
Apple Podcast: https://reurl.cc/k0rn0n
Spotify: https://reurl.cc/XkvGdE2022.4 Our paper "Referral of Wetness Sensation among Fingers" is published in Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan <Link>
2022.2 Ho Haptics Lab is awarded grant-in-aid for scientific research B for the project "World in your hand: Investigating the underlying mechanism of thermal material recognition and its interaction with multisensory information."
2022.1 Professor Ho has become a visiting researcher of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporations.
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