Compact Soft Tactile Actuator Based on Stacked Electroosmotic Pumps for Wearable Haptics

T.S. Ngo, C. Shultz, J.-H. Youn✉

IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026  (Accepted)

Strain2Force: Compact Nail-Based Sensor for 3DOF Contact Force Estimation

Y. Chen, X. Sun, J.-H. Youn, C. Shultz✉

IEEE Haptics Symposium 2026  (Accepted)

Mag-Chain: Reconfigurable 6-DOF Tangible Interfaces Using Magnetic Chains

J.-H. Youn✉, S.H. Lee, C. Shultz

ACM TEI 2026  (Accepted)

Pushing the Boundary: Force Sensitivity at the Edges of the Finger for Mixed Reality Haptics 

J.-H. Youn✉, A. Israr, C. Shultz

IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025  link

HaptiCoil: Soft Programmable Buttons with Hydraulically Coupled Haptic Feedback and Sensing

J.-H. Youn✉, S.H. Lee, C. Shultz

ACM CHI 2025  link

Skin-attached haptic patch enabling versatile and augmented tactile interaction

J.-H. Youn, S. Jang, I. Hwang, Q. Pei, S. Yun✉, K.-U. Kyung✉

Science Advances 2025  link

Dynamically reconfigurable shape-morphing and tactile display enabled by hydraulically coupled mergeable and splitable PVC gel actuator

S. Jang, M. Cho, H. Kim, M. Choi, S. Mun, J.-H. Youn, J.-H. Park, G. Hwang, I. Hwang, S. Yun, K.-U. Kyung✉

Science Advances 2024 (Headline article)  link

Height-renderable morphable tactile display enabled by programmable modulation of local stiffness in photothermally active polymer

I. Hwang, S. Mun, J.-H. Youn, H. J. Kim, S.K. Park, T. Kang, Q. Pei, S. Yun✉

Nature Communications 2024 (Featured article)  link

A Wearable Soft Tactile Actuator With High Output Force for Fingertip Interaction

J.-H. Youn, H. Mun, K.-U. Kyung✉

IEEE Access 2021  link

Self-sensing Soft Tactile Actuator for Fingertip Interface

J.-H. Youn, I.B. Yasir, K.-U. Kyung✉

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020  link