Workshop at IEEE World Haptics Conference
July 8th, 2025 in Suwon (South Korea)

Abstract

As computing shifts from desktops to embedded systems, haptic feedback is likewise evolving toward wearable devices that enable whole-body interactions. Advances in VR/AR further drive demand for untethered haptics that do not impede vision or hearing. However, engineering wearable haptics poses unique challenges such as delivering stimuli across anatomical regions of varying sensitivity, miniaturizing actuators, and managing trade-offs between bandwidth, resolution, and power density. Emerging solutions include soft polymers, smart materials, pneumatics, fluidics, and compliant mechanisms that better match the biomechanics of skin and overcome the limits of conventional electromagnetic actuators. Embedding these actuators into garments requires a human-centered design ensuring conformability, adjustability, and user acceptance across diverse body shapes. Equally important is integrating touch with vision and sound to craft immersive multimodal experiences, mediate emotion, and explore perceptual illusions. This workshop will gather researchers from multidisciplinary fields to discuss the latest breakthroughs and emerging challenges in wearable haptics.

Tentative program

All times are provided in the local time zone (UTC+9).

  • 08h50 - 09h00

    Welcome and Introduction

  • 09h00 - 09h30

    Cutaneous Electrohydraulic (CUTE) Wearable Devices for Pleasant Broad-Bandwidth Haptic Cues

    Katherine J. Kuchenbecker (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

  • 09h30 - 10h00

    Design and Control of Multimodal Haptic Arrays in Wearable Devices for XR

    Heather Culbertson (University of Southern California)

  • 10h00 - 10h30

    Electroosmotics for Wearable Haptics

    Craig Shultz (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

  • 10h30 - 11h00

    Coffee break

  • 11h00 - 11h30

    Beyond the Fingertips: Wrist-Worn Haptics for Immersive Interaction

    Elyse D. Z. Chase (Rice University)

  • 11h30 - 12h00

    Wearable Finger Haptics for Human-Centered Robotics and Immersive Interaction

    Claudio Pacchierotti (CNRS, IRISA Rennes)

  • 12h00 - 12h30

    Hearing Social Touch: the Perspectives Opened by Skin-on-Skin Sonification Technologies

    Malika Auvray (CNRS, Sorbonne University)

  • 12h30 - 14h00

    Lunch break

  • 14h00 - 14h30

    To be announced

    Ki-Uk Kyung (KAIST)

  • 14h30 - 15h00

    Salient and Versatile Full-Fingertip Haptic Feedback

    Alona Shagan (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

  • 15h00 - 15h30

    FiberPumps to Power Wearable Haptics

    Herbert Shea (EPFL)

  • 15h30 - 16h00

    Coffee break

  • 16h00 - 16h30

    To be announced

    Ildar Farkhatdinov (King’s College London)

  • 16h30 - 17h00

    Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for Wearable Haptics

    Jung-Hwan Youn (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

  • 17h00 - 17h30

    To be announced

    To be announced

  • 17h30 - 17h40

    Conclusion

Venue

The workshop will be held at the Suwon Convention Center (SCC).

140 Gwanggyojungang-ro,
Yeongtong-gu,
Suwon-si,
Gyeonggi-do, 16514,
Republic of Korea

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