Haptics: Understanding Touch; Technology and Systems; Applications and Interaction

The two-volume set LNCS 14768 + 14769 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2024, held in Lille, France, during June 30 - July 3, 2024.

The 81 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 142 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: understanding touch; technology and systems; applications and interaction.

. - Understanding Touch.

. - Human Identification Performance of Vibrotactile Stimuli Applied on the Torso along Azimuth or Elevation.

. - Utilizing Absence of Pacinian Corpuscles in the Forehead for Amplitude-Modulated Tactile Presentation.

. - Optimizing Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality: The Role of Vibration and Tangential Forces in Enhancing Grasp Response and Weight Perception.

. - Audiovisual-Haptic Simultaneity Perception Across the Body for Multisensory Applications.

. - Apparent Thermal Motion on the Forearm.

. - Surface Tactile Presentation to the Palm Using an Aerial Ultrasound Tactile Display.

. - Humans terminate their haptic explorations according to an interplay of task demands and motor effort.

. - The TIP Benchmark: A Tactile Image-Based Psychophysics-Inspired Benchmark for Artificial Tactile Sensors.

. - Towards Intensifying Perceived Pressure in Midair Haptics: Comparing Perceived Pressure Intensity and Skin Displacement between LM and AM Stimuli.

. - Virtual Hand Illusion Induced by Suction Pressure Stimulation to the Face.

. - Task-Adapted Single-Finger Explorations of Complex Objects.

. - Exploring Frequency Modulation in Decoding Edge Perception Through Touch.

. - The role of implicit prior information in haptic perception of softness.

. - Discovering the Causal Structure of Haptic Material Perception.

. - The visual and haptic contributions to hand and foot representation.

. - How Visualizing Touch Can Transform Perceptions of Intensity, Realism, and Emotion? .

. - Technology and Systems.

. - Asymmetric Hit-stop for Multi-user Virtual Reality Applications: Reducing Discomfort with the Movement of Others by Making Hit-stop Invisible.

. - Design of Haptic Rendering Techniques for Navigating with a Multi-Actuator Vibrotactile Handle.

. - Evaluating tactile interactions with fine textures obtained with femtosecond laser surface texturing.

. - Tactile Clip: A Wearable Device for Inducing Softness Illusion through Skin Deformation.

. - SENS3: Multisensory Database of Finger-Surface Interactions and Corresponding Sensations.

. - Variable Curvature and Spherically Arranged Ultrasound Transducers for Depth-Adjustable Focused Ultrasound.

. - The HapticSpider: a 7-DoF Wearable Device for Cutaneous Interaction with the Palm.

. - Vibrotactile cues with net lateral forces resulting from a travelling wave.

. - Enhancing the Perceived Pseudo-Torque Sensation based on the Distance between Actuators Elicited by Asymmetric Vibrations.

. - Presentation of Slip Sensation Using Suction Pressure and Electrotactile Stimulation.

. - Applications and Interaction.

. - Blindfolded operation as a method of haptic feedback design for mobile machinery.

. - Effects of Rendering Discrete Force Feedback on the Wrist during Virtual Exploration.

. - Viscous damping displayed by surface haptics improves touchscreen interactions.

. - Latency Compensation in Ultrasound Tactile Presentation by Linear Prediction of Hand Posture.

. - Pseudo-Frequency Modulation: A New Rendering Technique for Virtual Textures.

. - Do Vibrotactile Patterns on both Hands Improve Guided Navigation with a Walker? .

. - Data-driven Haptic Modeling of Inhomogeneous Viscoelastic Deformable Objects.

. - Perception of paired vibrotactile stimulus on the upper limb: implications for the design of wearable technology.

. - MoveTouch: Robotic Motion Capturing System with Wearable Tactile Display to Achieve Safe HRI.

. - Evaluation of HaptiComm-S for Replicating Tactile ASL Numbers: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Mediated Modalities.

. - Memorable Vibration Pattern Design based on Writing Pattern.

. - Estimating Contact Force Rate Using Skin Deformation Cues.

. - Move or Be Moved: The Design of a Haptic-Tangible Manipulative for Paired Digital Education Interactives.

. - High Fidelity Haptic Rendering through Implicit Neural Force Representation.

. - " It s Like Being on Stage" : Staging an Improvisational Haptic-Installed Contemporary Dance Performance.