Best Paper Award

Committee: Jan Van Erp (chair), Heather Culbertson, Knut Drewing, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Michael Wiertlewski

Müdge Cavdan and Knut Drewing
To Touch or not to Touch: the linkage between viscosity and unpleasantness

Honorable mentions:

• Tim Moegen, Hsin-Ni Ho and Yu Xiao, Apparent Thermal Motion in the Forearm
• Michiru Sobue, Soma Kato, Izumi Mizoguchi and Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Measuring the distribution of tactile acuity at the fingertips

List of final nominees:

• Tao Morisaki & Yusuke Ujitoko – Towards Intensifying Perceived Pressure in Midair Haptics: Comparing Perceived Pressure Intensity and Skin Displacement between LM and AM Stimuli
• Müge Cavdan & Knut Drewing – To Touch or not to touch: The linkage between viscosity and unpleasantness.
• Tim Moegen, Hsin-Ni Ho & Yu Xiao – Apparent Thermal Motion in the Forearm.
• Preeti Vyas, Andero Uusberg & Karon MacLean – Towards a Model for Haptics as a Co-Regulation Adjunt in Cognitive Reappraisal.
• Michiru Sobue, Soma Kato, Izumi Mizoguchi & Hiroyuki Kajimoto – Measuring the distribution of tactile acuity at the fingertips.

Best Demo Award

Committee: Seungmoon Choi, William Frier, Thorsten Kern (chair),
Kouta Minamizawa, Mounia Ziat

Rodan Umehara, Arata Horie, Kouta Minamizawa
Rotational Skin-stretch Distribution Creates Directional Force Sensation on the Wrist

Honorable mentions:

• Tom Hueting, Apparent motion through electrotactile stimulation
• Luuk van Laake, Max Alberts, Femke van Beek & Irene Kuling, A large area soft robotic haptic display to simulate a high‐five with an animal

List of final nominees:

• Rodan Umehara, Arata Horie, Kouta Minamizawa – Rotational Skin-stretch Distribution Creates Directional Force Sensation on the Wrist
• Tom Hueting – Apparent motion through electrotactile stimulation
• Tao Morisaki, Yasutoshi Makino, Hiroyuki Shinoda – Midair 3D Texture Display using Focused Ultrasound Based on Superimposing Pressure Sensation and Vibration Sensation
• Luuk van Laake, Max Alberts, Femke van Beek & Irene Kuling – A large area soft robotic haptic display to simulate a high‐five with an animal
• Ryusei Hosokawa, Masaya Takasaki, and Keisuke Hasegawa – Noncontact simultaneous presentation principle of tactile and heating sensations in spatiotemporally synchronized manner
• Takuto Nakamura, and Hideaki Kuzuoka – Demonstration of force perception through the shear deformation of the skin on the shoulder
• Takeshi Tanabe and Hidekazu Kaneko – Enhancing Ballistic Wrist Motion through Illusory Pulling Sensation
• Yong Hae Heo, Yuk Gwon Song, Dong-Soo Choi and Sang-Youn Kim – Head-Up Haptic Display based on Magnetorheological Elastomer

Best Poster Award

Committee: Rebecca Friesen (chair), Sinan Haliyo, Ilana Nisky, Femke Van Beek

Juliette Regimbal and Jeremy R. Cooperstock
Investigating Haptic Co-Creation with Reinforcement Learning

Honorable mentions:

• Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, Antoine Bout, Maxime Manzano, Sylvain Guégan, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marie Babel, and Maud Marchal, Multi-actuator Haptic Handle Using Soft Material for Vibration Isolation
• Mondher Ouari , Anis Kaci , Christophe Giraud-Audine , Frédéric Giraud and Betty Lemaire-Semail, Vibrotactile cues with net lateral forces resulting from a travelling wave

List of nominees:

• Jagan K. Balasubramanian , Bence L. Kodak , and Yasemin Vardar – SENS3: Multisensory Database of Finger-Surface Interactions and Corresponding Sensations
• Erwan Normand, Claudio Pacchierotti, Eric Marchand, and Maud Marchal – Augmenting the Texture Perception of Tangible Surfaces in Augmented Reality using Vibrotactile Haptics
• Juliette Regimbal and Jeremy R. Cooperstock – Investigating Haptic Co-Creation with Reinforcement Learning
• Pierre-Antoine Cabaret, Antoine Bout, Maxime Manzano, Sylvain Guégan, Claudio Pacchierotti, Marie Babel, and Maud Marchal – Multi-actuator Haptic Handle Using Soft Material for Vibration Isolation
• Mondher Ouari , Anis Kaci , Christophe Giraud-Audine , Frédéric Giraud and Betty Lemaire-Semail – Vibrotactile cues with net lateral forces resulting from a travelling wave
• Charlotte Magnusson, Taqwa Saeed and Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn – Lo-fi prototyping a refreshable pin display

Best WIP Award

Audience Vote, Sabrina Panëels (Chair)

Laurence Willemet, Michaël Wiertlewski, Edward Adelson
Skin expansion can produce an illusion of slipperiness

Honorable mentions:

• Mamoru Ueda, Yoshikatsu Hayashi, Toshiyuki Kondo, William Harwin – Embodying an Artificial Tail: Exploring Neural Adaptation to New Body Dynamics.
• Antoine Bout, Sylvain Guégan, Maud Marchal – Design of Hairy 3D Printed Samples for Haptic Feedback.
• Takeshi Tanabe – Pinchable Device with Drive Unit for Illusory Pulling Sensations.
• Esteban Madoux, Charles Hudin – Refreshable Braille display using wave focusing and bistable pins.