"Immersion Haptic Design" - EIIRIS Special Invited Talk was held
21 May 2012
Mr.Chris Ullrich,Vice President, Immersion Technologies.
"Immersion Haptic Design"
Outline: This talk will begin with an overview of Immersion Corporation, its technologies and markets.
Immersion was founded in 1993 and is a world leader in developing technologies that bring the sense of touch to consumer electronic devices.
The company's technologies can be found in more than 400 million devices worldwide including smartphones, automobiles, game controllers and surgical simulators.
After the overview, we will discuss the value of tactile feedback from the perspective of embodied cognition, design and affect.
The talk will include videos showing some of the experiential research conducted by Immersion and with demonstrations of Immersion's latest mobile phone technologies.
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We are pleased to announce that Invited Talk was held as follows:
Invited Talk
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Date:
Wednesday 16th May 2012
Time:
1:30 p.m.-
Place:
Room C205
Title of Talk:
"Immersion Haptic Design"
Language:
English
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Outline: This talk will begin with an overview of Immersion Corporation, its technologies and markets.
Immersion was founded in 1993 and is a world leader in developing technologies that bring the sense of touch to consumer electronic devices.
The company's technologies can be found in more than 400 million devices worldwide including smartphones, automobiles, game controllers and surgical simulators.
After the overview, we will discuss the value of tactile feedback from the perspective of embodied cognition, design and affect.
The talk will include videos showing some of the experiential research conducted by Immersion and with demonstrations of Immersion's latest mobile phone technologies.
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Lecture:
Mr.Chris Ullrich,Vice President, Immersion Technologies.
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About the lecture:
Mr. Chris Ullrich, Vice President, User Experience
Chris Ullrich is responsible for ensuring that haptic products and technologies designed and developed at Immersion are highly valued by users, developers and OEM customers. Since joining Immersion in 2000, Mr. Ullrich has worked across departments to innovate, develop and bring to market a variety of technologies. He also directed software research and development in 3D, directed the medical simulation engineering team and led the design and development of next generation surgical instruments. Prior to working at Immersion, he held several research and engineering roles at Virtual Technologies Inc. and Telesat Canada. He holds a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia and a B.Math from the University of Waterloo.
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URL:
http://www.immersion.com/
http://www.eiiris.tut.ac.jp/
