Bingxu Li and Greg Gerling's paper “Individual Differences Impacting Skin Deformation and Tactile Discrimination with Compliant Elastic Surfaces” has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at the upcoming 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference.  This honor was accorded to the top ~15% of accepted papers based on reviews.

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Both Bingxu and Merat also recently had papers accepted to the 2021 IEEE World Haptics Symposium. Looking forward to their presentation!

Li, B. and Gerling, G.J. “Individual differences impacting skin deformation and tactile discrimination with compliant elastic surfaces.” In: 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, Canada, 2021, in press.

Rezaei, M., Nagi, S.S., Xu, C., McIntyre, S., Olausson, H., and Gerling, G.J. “Thin Films on theSkin, but not Frictional Agents, Attenuate the Percept of Pleasantness toBrushed Stimuli.” In: 2021 IEEE WorldHaptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, Canada, 2021, in press.

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Thank you to all who could attend and for our great discussions!

Next up is his thesis defense! Chang has made several very nice contributions, especially his recent 2021 PLOS Computational Biology Paper.  

Xu, C. Wang, Y., Gerling, G.J. “An elasticity-curvature illusion decouples cutaneous and proprioceptive cues in active exploration of soft objects.” PLOS Computational Biology, 17(3), (2021), pp. e1008848

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Looking forward to seeing these works presented in July 2021!

Li, B. and Gerling, G.J. “Individual differences impacting skin deformation and perceptual discrimination with compliant elastic surfaces.” In: 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, Canada, 2021.

Xu, C., Wang, Y., and Gerling, G.J. “Individual Performance in Compliance Discrimination is Constrained by Skin Mechanics but Improved under Volitional Control.” In: 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC),Montreal, Canada, 2021.

Rezaei, M., Nagi, S.S., Xu, C., McIntyre, S., Olausson, H., and Gerling, G.J. “Thin Films on theSkin, but not Frictional Agents, Attenuate the Percept of Pleasantness to Brushed Stimuli.” In: 2021 IEEE WorldHaptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, Canada, 2021.

Li, B., Lee, J., and Gerling, G.J. “A Magnetorheological Elastomer Device for Programmable Actuation and Sensing ofSoft Haptic Experiences.” In: 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, Canada, 2021.