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Dear Colleagues,

We would like to announce that the Tactile Research Group will be planning this year on Thursday, November 14th, 2013. Following is the detail information of the meeting.


Location: Conference Room B (Mezzanine level) Sheraton Centre Hotel, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 

Time:  8:30am - 6:00pm, November 14 (Thursday), 2013

Final program: Here

Group Dinner: Bannock from 6:45pm 

 

We are now planning to invited six speakers from various research fields in sense of touch research, including cognitive psychology, multisensory integration, and human-computer interface on haptics. This is amazing opportunity to meet the experts.

 

John Kennedy (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada)

http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~kennedy/

 

Yon Visell (Drexel University, USA)

http://re-touch-lab.com/

 

Nicholas Giudice (University of Maine, USA)
http://spatial.umaine.edu/faculty/giudice/

 

Jean Vroomen (Tilburg University)
http://spitswww.uvt.nl/~vroomen/

 

Mounia Ziat (Northern Michigan University, USA)

http://www.mouniaziat.com/

 

Vincent Levesque (Immersion)

 
 

In addition there will be talks devoted to several topics in tactile/haptics, the confirmed attendees are as following (updated: 11/07/2013).

J. Farley Norman (Western Kentucky University, USA)

Andy Bhattacharjee (McMaster University, Canada)

Jared Medina (University of Delaware, USA)

Reza Sina Taghavi (Tactile Image, Inc., USA)

Camille Williams (University of Toronto, Canada)

Jeroen Smeets (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherland)

Femke Maij (Radbout University, Nijmegen, Netherland)

Sabah Master (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada)

Laurence Harris (York University, Canada)

Patrick Cabe (University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA)

Ilja Frissen (McGill University, Canada)

Krista Overvliet (University of Leuven, Belgium) (She will also host a session this year!)

Masashi Nakatani (Columbia University/Keio University, USA/Japan)

  

In order to help us in the further planning of the meeting, please indicate whether you plan to attend to the meeting and to the group dinner. 

Please, inform your colleagues and students who might be interested in the scope of the meeting.

 

Housing: The psychonomic Society meeting usually arranges a conference hotel at reduced rates:https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1301218315&key=79E50

Registration for psychonomics is not required but a TRG meeting fee ($20 for Postdocs and students and $40 for senior scientists for TRG 2013) will be charged at arrival or before the TRG meeting. Most of this fee is to cover the audio-visual costs and refreshment. The final cost will be fixed after knowing the number of attendees.

 

Members of the TRG involved in organizing this year’s meeting include Ilja Frissen and Masashi Nakatani (mn2598[at]columbia.edu).

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