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Encoding Data through Cutaneous Force-based Encountered-Type Fingertip Haptics Haptixel: Encoding Data through Cutaneous Force-based Encountered-Type Fingertip Haptics Data visualization benefits from non-visual cues to enable people to understand information by engaging with it through multimodality, yet most approaches rely on cumbersome technologies or large scale artifacts, making them difficult to adapt to dynamic or complex datasets. In this paper, we explore the use of cutaneous haptics as a lightweight quantitative channel for visualization tasks, allowing users to feel data and…

After my masters’ degree and prior to my PhD, I worked for three years at StretchSense Ltd, in Auckland, New Zealand.StretchSense is specialised in super soft, stretchable and reliable sensors, that are integrated into smart and ‘disappearable’ garments to capture all kinds of body motions. The principle is clear: because the body is mostly composed of soft (skin) and stretchable (muscles) materials, why not capturing it using a soft and stretchable material?These sensors rely on EAP (electro-active polymers), also known…

This project consists of a wearable device for the elderly. Its aim is two-fold: (1) preventing independent people from becoming frail people, and (2) detecting the degradation of one’s health and bring assistance. New technologies currently allow to track patients from home, but also act as motivational coaches. First, patients become aware of their own health state. Second, they actually improve it to be able to share data with a doctor or even with friends. Prevention Age, diseases, environment and…