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Join our spring school on Social XR🤩📣 🆕 Application deadline has been extended to Friday, Feb 3rd 🥳 Apply now ➡️ dis.cwi.nl/spring-school/… 📅March 13 - 17, 2023 📍@CWInl - Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🔗 dis.cwi.nl/spring-school/

I'm looking for a PhD student to join my lab and explore the potential of variable-friction #robotic grippers. A more detailed post, with requirements and application instructions is currently over on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/ad-spier…

Industrial Design Engineering researchers, Nazli Cila, Gijs Huisman and Maria Luce Lupetti, together with colleagues from the 4TU Federation, who together form the a research collective DEI4EAI, have been granted the NWO Diversity Initiative Award! tudelft.nl/en/2022/io/nov…

I’m really proud of this one! A real privilege to be part of such a wonderful team.

One week to go until the first BRNet online seminar! We are delighted to have @Dijkermanlabs talking about "Interacting components of the body" in discussion with @CEJpreston. Register here to access the link: eventbrite.fr/e/interacting-… Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Interested in pursuing a PhD in the Philosophy of Digital Technology? Come work with us at the Delft Digital Ethics Centre & TU Delft | Technology, Policy and Management. Please share widely! tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/…

@AntalHaans @BehPsyOvGU Maybe scholar.social or fediscience.org?

@BehPsyOvGU @_Gijs No clue how this works, but mastodon.social seems to not accept new accounts. Any other options?

I'll be slowly migrating to Mastodon. Find me at @_gijs@mastodon.social for the occassional (re-)toot on embodied interaction, touch, and haptics.

@AntalHaans No harm in giving it a try I’d say :)

@_Gijs The big question is: Should I do the same...

Sylvia Pont (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hoogleraar Perceptuele Intelligentie) geeft 20 nov. een interactieve lezing. Via lichteffecten laat Pont de verwondering zien die bijvoorbeeld van Leeuwenhoek en Vermeer zouden hebben ervaren bij hun ontdekkingen. bit.ly/3AfHpIq

@kynewolves @MarekMcGann Will do. Thanks Mark!

@_Gijs @MarekMcGann I expect not, but keep an eye on the website for details. I’ll update things on here as we go also obviously…

Want a week discussing embodied cognition with leaders in the field in tropical Okinawa, Japan? ECogS 2022: Interaction Matters (7th-11th of Nov) is opening its doors now travel restrictions have eased. See website for details and registration tinyurl.com/mpfjt2eb 1/2

@kynewolves @MarekMcGann That would be amazing! Is it necessary to register to access the stream/recordings?

@MarekMcGann Good question. We are aiming to stream live and record

Today, we are going to present our book DEI4Embodied AI: Reflecting and Re-Imagining our Future with Embodied AI.If you are at @UTwente for @UtwenteDEI come! Thanks to the super-talented Alice Liotti for the visual design #friday-7-october" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">utwente.nl/en/organisatio…

Our new paper 'Sociotechnical imaginaries of remote personal touch before & during COVID-19: An analysis of UK newspapers' - discusses pre-COVID news landscape of digital touch: power of human touch, digital touch, & fears/ possibilities of digital touch doi.org/10.1177/146144…

'The catalogue of touch' by Lili Golmohammadi from @IN_TOUCH_UCL project - the latest multimodal sensation from our Special Issue is available for all to download now journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…

What to do when lab access is restricted due to Covid19? Like many others we (Sima Ipaksian Askari, @_Gijs Huisman, @Psych_Tech, and I) conducted a survey assessing opinions about mediated touch technologies during Covid19 restrictions. Now published! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

@DrGBuckingham @Dave_Parisi I’m not sure. Its a spin-off from @dprattichizzo ‘s lab.

@_Gijs @Dave_Parisi Are these based in Allison Okamura's fingerpad deformation to experience heaviness work?

FINGERHAPTICS, coming soon from Apple (kinda not really): "Haptic output may be used, for example, to provide the fingers of a user with a desired texture sensation as a user is touching a real object or as a user is touching a virtual object."

@Dave_Parisi Yes, from the main wireless unit to thumb, index, and middle finger. Didn’t bother me when trying it in VR, though. Sensations are only felt on the finger tips, which worked impressively well.

@_Gijs I haven't! It looks like a lot of wires tho?

@Dave_Parisi Have you tried weart.it ? I was quite impressed with it at EuroHaptics!

A lot of haptics patents look cool at first glance but are impractical/unrealistic when you push on them a bit, this isn't one of those. An earbud-style case for the finger device would make it pretty easy to use on the go for MR.