News
2024
Associate Editor in Transactions on Haptics!
Yasemin has joined the editorial team of Transactions on Haptics as an Associate Editor!
Achievements 09.12.2024
Lab activity!
The HITLAB team enjoyed some well-deserved downtime, bonding over frisbee at X!
Lab activities 06.12.2024
Tim graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 04.12.2024
HITLAB was at High Tech!
HITLAB members Jagan and Umut presented a demo and poster at a High Tech event. They engaged in insightful discussions, fostering valuable connections with attendees.
Presentation & Demo 02.12.2024
Culture dinner!
We had a wonderful evening and a delightful dinner at Yasemin's house. Each of us prepared a dish from our home country, celebrating the diversity and richness that our international group brings together.
Lab activities 21.11.2024
We attended Mindlab Theatre!
We attended the mindful Mindlab Theatre about the academy and took part in a thought-provoking discussion afterward.
Lab activities 21.11.2024
Umut successfully passes Go/No-Go meeting!
Umut presented his PhD topics and progress to the community and received a 'Go' decision to continue his research.
Presentation 20.11.2024
Dave joined our lab!
He is an intern student in our lab. Welcome Dave!
Join 19.11.2024
Tanya joined our lab!
She is a new master student in our lab. Welcome Tanya!
Join 14.11.2024
Haewon started her Ph.D. at EPFL!
Our former research engineer Haewon started a Ph.D. position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)! Congratulations!
Alumni 15.10.2024
Li joined our lab!
She is a postdoc student in our lab. Welcome Li!
Join 15.10.2024
Umut receives TCH Innovation in Haptics Research grant!
Umut has received the Innovation for Haptics Research Award for his research proposal: "Sliding Finger Contact Area Estimation for Individuals." He will spend this funding to disseminate his research results in the upcoming conferences.
Grant 08.10.2024
Visit from Prof. Heather Culbertson
We had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Heather Culbertson to TU Delft today! She experienced the demos from both HITLAB and the Tactile Machines Lab, followed by an engaging presentation on her latest research.
Guests 27.09.2024
Farewell dinner for Haewon
We had a nice dinner at the Delft city center!
Lab activities 25.09.2024
Erkin joined our lab!
He is an intern student in our lab. Welcome Erkin!
Join 18.09.2024
Farewell dinner for Ana
We had a nice dinner at the Delft city center!
Lab activities 06.09.2024
Ana graduated with Cum Laude!
She is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 06.09.2024
BioRob 2024!
HITLAB was at Biorob 2024! Yasemin and MNL Lab joined to BioRob to learn about the latest developments in biorobotics. Yasemin presented their paper with Bram on the effect of relocated thermal and pressure cues on the vibrotactile sensitivity. Also, Alex Ratschat, member of MNL Lab of TU Delft, presented the output of Ruben's MSc. thesis.
Presentation
04.09.2024
Khoa graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 30.08.2024
Ismail finished his summer internship!
Ismail finished his summer internship at HITLAB! He worked on the SENS3 database during the summer with Jagan and will return to Sabancı University for his senior year of his bachelor's degree.
Alumni 30.08.2024
RSS 2024!
HITLAB was at Eurohaptics! Yasemin and Jagan went to the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) Conference to learn about the latest developments in robotics. They also presented their texture rendering demonstration during the lab tour!
Presentation & Demo 19.07.2024
Eurohaptics 2024!
HITLAB was at Eurohaptics! Yasemin, Jagan, Umut, and Lukas went to Eurohaptics Conference to learn about the latest developments in haptics and share our latest work! Jagan and Yasemin presented their SENS3 database paper and texture rendering demonstration. Their paper was nominated for the best poster award!
Presentation & Demo 01.07.2024
Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium!
Yasemin, Haewon, Khoa and Ana joined Dutch Soft Robotics Symposium. We had interesting discussions with soft roboticists and tried their demos!
Presentation & Demo 29.05.2024
Quinn Joined our lab!
He is a new master student in our lab. Welcome Quinn!
Join 23.04.2024
New paper!
Paper 29.04.2024
Haptics Symposium 2024!
Presentation & Demo 10.04.2024
Lab activity!
We had a team building sports and picnic at X. We played volleyball and had a nice barbecue!
Lab activities 05.04.2024
Demet will be a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech!
Our former summer intern Demet Tangolar has accepted a Ph.D. position at the Georgia Institute of Technology! Congratulations!
Alumni 18.03.2024
Lab photo
We took a new group photo for this year!
Lab activities 01.03.2024
Umut joined our lab!
He is a new Ph.D. student in our lab. Welcome Umut!
Join 01.03.2024
SHErobots!
HTLab was at SHErobots Cafe organized at TU Delft Library! Yasemin gave a talk with the title "Digitization of Touch Sense" and Haewon, Jagan, and Khoa demonstrated FeelPen and FeelSurf to the participants. You can check the event details here.
Presentation & Demo 29.02.2024
Presentation at Erasmus MC
Yasemin gave a presentation at the Erasmus MC about the digitization of touch sense. The talk was part of the scientific meetings organized by the Convergence initiative.
Presentation 26.02.2024
New paper!
Our paper, “Tactile Weight Rendering: A Review for Researchers and Developers”, is submitted! Congratulations to authors, Ruben, Alex, Laura, and Yasemin! You can read the paper here.
Paper 20.02.2024
Presentation at TUE
Yasemin gave a presentation at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Technical University of Eindhoven about haptics.
Presentation 14.02.2024
New paper!
Paper 31.01.2024
New paper!
Our paper, “Design and evaluation of a multi-finger skin-stretch tactile interface for hand rehabilitation robots ”, is submitted to BioRob! Congratulations to authors, Alex, Ruben, Yasemin, Gerard and Laura! You can read the paper here.
Paper 31.01.2024
NWO Physics Conference 2024
Haewon and Khoa demonstrated Feel Pen and Feel Surf!
Demo 23.01.2024
Katharina joined our lab!
She is a new master student in our lab. Welcome Katharina!
Join 19.01.2024
Ruben became a Ph.D. student at the University of Basel!
Our former MSc. student, Ruben Martin Rodriguez, started his Ph.D. at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Basel! Congratulations!
Alumni 01.01.2024
2023
NWO user committee meetings VENI
We had a fruitful knowledge utilization meeting for our VENI project funded by Dutch Research Council (NWO)! Committe members from SenseGlove, Mathworks, and Van Gogh Museum participated in person and tried Jagan's FeelSurf demo.
Presentation 15.12.2023
Dies graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 14.12.2023
Ruben graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 30.11.2023
HITLAB was at HRI Demo Days!
HITLab opened its doors to the Human Robot Interaction
Demo 30.11.2023
HITLab was part of Euro XR 2023!
HITLab opened its doors to the visitors of the Euro XR conference! Jagan and Haewon showed Feel Surf and Wearable ring demos.
Demo 29.11.2023
Ana joined our lab!
She is a new master student in our lab. Welcome Ana!
Join 27.11.2023
Farewell dinner for Bence
We had a nice dinner at the Delft city center!
Lab activities 31.10.2023
Lucas graduated!
He is now an M.Sc.! Congratulations!
Graduation 27.10.2023
Abishek graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation 27.10.2023
Visitor from Huawei
He tried our demos and exchanged ideas and collaboration opportunities!
Demo 26.10.2023
Team building activity
We had a nice walk at the park around KNUS and amazing dishes!
Lab activities 20.10.2023
Haewon joined our lab!
She is a new research engineer. Welcome Haewon!
Join 16.10.2023
Khoa joined our lab!
He is a new master student in our lab. Welcome Khoa!
Join 24.08.2023
Bram graduated!
He is now M.Sc..! Congratulations!
Graduation xx.xx.2023
2023 World Haptics Coference
Yasemin gave a presentation about current projects.
Presentation XX.xx.2023
Presentation at Siemens
Yasemin and Jagan presented Feel Surf. Then we discussed about collaboration opportunities!
Demo xx.xx.2023
Teknowlodgy 2023
We were at Teknowlodgy on June 27! Bence, Jagan, and Yasemin presented FeelPen and FeelSurf there!
Presentation 27.06.2023
Beril joined our lab!
Beril joined HITLAB as an undergraduate summer intern. Welcome Beril!
Join 26.06.2023:
Seminars on "Digitizing touch sense"!
Yasemin will give a seminar "Digitizing Touch Sense: Unveiling the Perceptual Essence of Tactile Textures" on June 21 at the Contextual Robotics Institute of the University of California, San Diego, and on June 23 at the Arizona State University!
Presentation 19.06.2023
Visitors from KU Leuven
We had visitors from KU Leuven!
Demo 05.06.2023
Interview with Esra Oz
Yasemin had an interview with Esra Oz from the magazine Independent about her research. You can read it here.
Interview 03.06.2023
NWO-XS grant awarded!
Yasemin is awarded an NWO-XS grant for her project "SensaSkin: A haptic interface for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in children." Thanks to this grant, our group has an open Research Engineer position (one year full-time).
Grant 09.05.2023
Paper published!
"Focused vibrotactile stimuli from a wearable sparse array of actuators" is now published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. Congratulations to Valerie, Michael Wiertlewski, and Yasemin! You can read the paper here. We will present our paper as an oral presentation at IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft!
Paper 08.05.2023
New course!
The first day of the Applied Experimental Methods Course, which is led by our group this year!
Course 26.04.2023
Postdoc Career Event
Yasemin met with postdocs of TU Delft and shared her experiences in landing an academic job at the Postdoc Career Event organized by Delft Young Academy.
Presentation 25.04.2023
Special guests!
We had special guests today! Yasemin's parents visited our lab and tried our demos. Thanks, Bence and Lucas for the demos!
Guests 25.04.2023
Interview with De Ingenieur
Renee Canrinus-Moezelaar from the magazine De Ingenieur interviews Michael Wiertlewski and Yasemin about haptics. You can read the interview here.
Interview 24.04.203
Guest from Royal Dutch Visio
We had guests from the Faculty of Industrial Design and Royal Dutch Visio. Thanks, Bence and Lucas for the demos!
Demo 20.04.2023
Bachmann Electronics visited
We had a visit from Bachmann Electronics. Thanks, Bence for the demos!
Demo 04.04.2023
Embodied Intelligence Conference 2023
Yasemin presented their work "Learning to feel textures: Predicting perceptual similarities from unconstrained finger-surface interactions" at the Embodied Intelligence Conference.
Presentation 22.03.2023
Paper published!
Our paper "FeelPen: A Haptic Stylus Displaying Multimodal Texture Feels on Touchscreens " is now published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics! Congratulations to Bence and Yasemin! You can read the paper here.
Paper 20.03.2023
Paper published!
Our paper "Thermosurf: Thermal Display Technology for Dynamic and Multi-Finger Interactions" is now published in IEEE Access! Congratulations to authors Luka, Gokhan Serhat, and Yasemin! You can read the paper here.
Paper 03.02.2023
Kick-off meeting for NWO VENI project!
We had the first kick-off meeting for our NWO VENI project! We showed our progress and demos and discussed possible collaborations with our diverse user committee (Huawei, Siemens, Senseglove, Wittenstein, Van Gogh Museum, Royal Dutch Visio, and Mathworks).
Meeting 25.01.2023
Online talk in AI and Robotics Seminar
Yasemin gave an online talk "Perception and rendering of tactile textures" for the Advanced Topics in AI and Robotics seminar series, organized by Nico Hochgeschwender from the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Presentation 16.01.2023
Jagan joined our lab!
Today Jagan joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome Jagan! He is the first Ph.D. student of our group.
Join 02.01.2023
27.06.2023: We were at Teknowlodgy on June 27! Bence, Jagan, and Yasemin presented FeelPen and FeelSurf there!
26.06.2023: Beril joined HITLAB as an undergraduate summer intern. Welcome Beril!
19.06.2023: Yasemin will give a seminar "Digitizing Touch Sense: Unveiling the Perceptual Essence of Tactile Textures" on June 21 at the Contextual Robotics Institute of the University of California, San Diego, and on June 23 at the Arizona State University!
05.06.2023: We had visitors from KU Leuven!
03.06.2023: Yasemin had an interview with Esra Oz from the magazine Independent about her research. You can read it here.
09.05.2023: Yasemin is awarded an NWO-XS grant for her project "SensaSkin: A haptic interface for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorders in children." Thanks to this grant, our group has an open Research Engineer position (one year full-time).
08.05.2023: Our paper "Focused vibrotactile stimuli from a wearable sparse array of actuators" is now published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. Congratulations to Valerie, Michael Wiertlewski, and Yasemin! You can read the paper here: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/document/10108021. We will present our paper as an oral presentation at IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft!
26.04.2023: The first day of the Applied Experimental Methods Course, which is led by our group this year!
25.04.2023: Yasemin met with postdocs of TU Delft and shared her experiences in landing an academic job at the Postdoc Career Event organized by Delft Young Academy.
25.04.2023: We had special guests today! Yasemin's parents visited our lab and tried our demos. Thanks, Bence and Lucas for the demos!
24.04.203: Renee Canrinus-Moezelaar from the magazine De Ingenieur interviews Michael Wiertlewski and Yasemin about haptics. You can read the interview here: https://issuu.com/de-ingenieur/docs/ing_04_2023_reader
20.04.2023: We had guests from the Faculty of Industrial Design and Royal Dutch Visio. Thanks, Bence and Lucas for the demos!
04.04.2023: We had a visit from Bachmann Electronics. Thanks, Bence for the demos!
22.03.2023: Yasemin presented their work "Learning to feel textures: Predicting perceptual similarities from unconstrained finger-surface interactions" at the Embodied Intelligence Conference.
20.03.2023: Our paper "FeelPen: A Haptic Stylus Displaying Multimodal Texture Feels on Touchscreens " is now published in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics! Congratulations to Bence and Yasemin! You can read the paper here: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/document/10105612
03.02.2023: Our paper "Thermosurf: Thermal Display Technology for Dynamic and Multi-Finger Interactions" is now published in IEEE Access! Congratulations to authors Luka, Gokhan Serhat, and Yasemin! You can read the paper here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10035997
25.01.2023: We had the first kick-off meeting for our NWO VENI project! We showed our progress and demos and discussed possible collaborations with our diverse user committee (Huawei, Siemens, Senseglove, Wittenstein, Van Gogh Museum, Royal Dutch Visio, and Mathworks).
16.01.2023: Yasemin gave an online talk "Perception and rendering of tactile textures" for the Advanced Topics in AI and Robotics seminar series, organized by Nico Hochgeschwender from the University of Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.
02.01.2023: Today Jagan joined our lab as a Ph.D. student! Welcome Jagan! He is the first Ph.D. student of our group.
2022
15.12.2022: HITLab had its first official off-campus meeting with the new members! We wish you happy holidays!
06.12.2022: HITLab has seven new members! Within the last month, Lucas, Ruben, Bram, Shanti, Abhishek, Rogier, and Dies have joined our lab as master students. Welcome!
22.11.2022: Yasemin gave an invited talk with the title "Fingertip contact state and its implications to electrovibration perception"at Huawei Aurora Summit!
10.11.2022: HITLab was on fire! For two consecutive days, we showed hands-on demonstrations of our work to Nissan, Fred Abbink (CEO of Abbink Aviation Consultancy), and our dean Fred van Keulen and his team!
10.11.2022: Yasemin gave an online guest lecture, "Enabling Natural Surface Feels on Virtual Environments" for the Haptics Course of Hasti Seifi in Arizona State University.
01.11.2022: HITLab welcomes 7 new members: Abhishek, Bram, Lucas, Dies, Ruben, Rogier, and Shanti! Welcome our group!
29.10.2022: Yasemin presented their work with Becca, "On the perceived realism of virtual textures generated by a wearable ring actuator" at the MPI-IS Haptic Intelligence Department Retreat at Ellwangen, Germany! She was also a panelist in the career paths discussion.
18.10.2022: Yasemin gave an online seminar to Baltas Group!
12.10.2022: Together with our collaborator Daan Pool, we had the opportunity to visit the DEAC Dutch Electric Aviation Centre Teuge Cessna 337F Skymaster research aircraft. Thanks a lot, Alexander in 't Veld for the great tour, explaining the exciting future plans, and of course the awesome demonstration flight. Especially the hands-on experience with the difficulties in operating touchscreens in a shaking aircraft cockpit also provided great inspiration for our joint research on this exciting topic, and possible future experiments using this research aircraft!
12.10.2022: Today, we had visitors from Mathworks! Dr. Michelle Hirsch (Worldwide Head Product Management - MATLAB) and Dr. Narfi Stefansson (Senior Development Manager - MATLAB) and their team members visited our lab, tried our demos, and exchanged ideas and collaboration opportunities!
03.10.2022: Alperen joined HITLab as an intern. He is an MSc. student in Mechatronics Engineering at Sabanci University and an exchange student in MSc. robotics at TU Delft.
20.09.2022: Selin and Demet presented their 3-months internship project! It is their last week. We wish them good luck in their future careers.
14.09.2022: Last day of Houman! We had a nice goodbye drink for him at our faculty. We wish him success in his life and career!
06.09.2022: One journal paper, Learning to feel textures: Predicting perceptual similarities from unconstrained finger-surface interactions, co-authored by Yasemin, Ben Richardson, Christian Wallraven, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is now accepted for publication IEEE Transactions on Haptics!
05.09.2022: Yasemin delivered a keynote talk at the Opening of the Academic Year Ceremony of TU Delft! You can listen to her talk from this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sicekz5wr4s
04.07.2022: Demet and Selin have started their internships in our group. Both have been awarded the Erasmus scholarship. Welcome!
27.06.2022: Bence is graduated! He is now M.Sc.! Congratulations!!
23.06.2022: Dennis, Matthias, Koen, and Pim is graduated! Congratulations!!!
08.06.2022: Luka is graduated! She is now M.Sc.! Congratulations!!!
02.06.2022: Valerie is graduated! She is now M.Sc.! Congratulations!!!
27.05.2022: One journal paper, Contact evolution of dry and hydrated fingertips at the initial touch, co-authored by Yasemin, Gokhan Serhat, and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is now accepted for publication PLoS ONE!
26.05.2022: Yasemin became a board member of Eurohaptics Society!
22.05.2022: HITLab was at Eurohaptics 2022 in Hamburg! Yasemin presented their work "Contact evolution of dry and hydrated fingertips at initial touch" at skin mechanics and its role in manipulation and perception workshop! She also chaired Tactile Perception oral presentation session.
06.04.2022: Yasemin is awarded NWO Veni Grant! Here is the link for the press release: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2022/3me/news/feeling-things-by-touching-the-screen-of-your-smartphone
23.02.2022: Dennis, Koen, Matthias, and Pim joined HITLab! Welcome!
2021
02.12.2021: Bence and Yasemin presented their FeelPen Demo at Huawei's Smart Cockpit Workshop in Grenoble!
04.11.2021: Yasemin presented their recent paper published in Journal of Royal Society Interface at Tactile Research Group Annual Meeting and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
01.11.2022: Houman joined our lab today. Welcome Houman!
30.10.2021: Becca's last day. She will start working as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University! We will miss her!
16.10.2021: Yasemin will talk at Haptics Club about human tactile perception, texture rendering, and robotics on October 12 at 18:00 CEST. Here is the link: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1lDxLLdVrobxm?s=20
14.10.2021: HITLab's first off-campus meet up was at Wijnhaven Delft!
08.07.2021: Yasemin became the co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics!
06.07.2021: HITLab was at World Haptics 2021! We presented two interactive demos, one work in progress paper, and one TOH poster!
10.05.2021: Two interactive demonstrations and one work in progress paper are accepted to IEEE WHC 2021. Congratulations to Becca and Bence!
30.04.2021: Today at 12:45, Yasemin will talk at the "To Ph.D. or not to be Ph.D.? " panel organized by ASIMOV. Don't miss it if you want to learn more about doing a Ph.D!
06.04.2021: Our new article is featured on Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems website! Here is the link: https://hi.is.mpg.de/news/challenging-the-design-of-electrovibrations-to-generate-a-more-realistic-feel
01.03.2021: Today, Becca will give an invited (virtual) seminar at the Graduate Student Group of Northwestern University. Her talk title is Texture-induced vibrations: Developing haptic technology in tandem with tactile applications. On Wednesday, she will give the same talk at the Alumni Virtual Meetups of Goshen College!
02.02.2021: One journal paper, Finger motion and contact by a second finger influence the tactile perception by electrovibration, co-authored by Yasemin and Katherine J. Kuchenbecker is now accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface!
27.01.2021: Bence finished his internship project Design of a Pen-Type Multi-Modal Haptic Interface today and presented it in our group meeting. Congratulations Bence! He will start his thesis on February 1st.
19.01.2021: Yasemin and her collaborator Andres Hunt are awarded a 3ME Cohesion 2021 grant with their project Enabling Future Gadgets to Communicate via Touch! This grant will enable them to hire one postdoctoral researcher for one year. Stay tuned!
15.01.2021: Becca will give a virtual invited seminar at Texas A&M University on January 29. The title of her presentation is Displaying and Enhancing Novel Textures for Haptic Displays. Good luck Becca!
13.01.2021: Luka finished her internship project Displaying Localized Thermal Feedback on Transparent Surfaces today and presented it in our group meeting. Congratulations Luka! She will start her thesis tomorrow!
12.01.2021: Valerie joined HITLab today. Welcome!
2020
11.11.2020: Yasemin gave an invited virtual seminar, The Journey Towards Realistic Haptic Displays, at the Surface Haptics Meetings of Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory at Koc University!
01.11.2020: Rebecca and Yves joined HITLab today. Welcome!
23.10.2020: Yasemin will present her work on "Tactile Perception by Electrovibration" at Tactile Research Group Meeting as a part of the Psychonomics Society Annual Meeting. You can attend the virtual seminar for a live Q&A session on November 19, 10:40 AM, EST!
05.10.2020: Luka joined HITLab today. Welcome Luka!
23.09.2020: Bence joined HITLab today. Welcome Bence!
09.09.2020: HITLab was at Eurohaptics 2020 in Leiden! We presented one hands-on demonstration and one work-in-progress poster with our collaborators (Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Bernard Javot, and Cara Nunez) from Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
01.09.2020: First day of HITLab!
