Award Winners

Best Paper Award ($1000, Sponsored by Force Dimension)

Best Student Presentation Award ($500)

For both of the above awards, a list of eight candidate technical papers was selected based on the scores and comments provided by the reviewers and the Program Committee; papers co-authored by the Awards Chair were not considered for this list.  The selected papers are marked in the program and proceedings as best paper candidates.

A panel of judges reviewed all of these candidate papers and attended the presentations during the conference. The best paper award was given to the paper deemed to be of highest quality in terms of innovation, rigor, impact, quality and presentation. The best student presentation award was given to the student first author of a paper from this list who gave, in the judges' opinion, the best presentation of the work, embodying the innovation, quality, rigor, and impact of the contribution.

Winners:

• Best Paper Award
  On the Electrical Characterization of Electroadhesive Displays and the Prominent Interfacial Gap Impedance Associated with Sliding Fingertips
  Craig D. Shultz, Michael A. Peshkin, and J. Edward Colgate
  

The other two finalists for Best Paper were:

• EIS: A Wearable Device for Epidermal Pressure Sensing by Zijie Zhu, Ruya Li, and Tingrui Pan
• Imaging the 3-D Deformation of the Finger Pad When Interacting with Compliant Materials by Steven C. Hauser and Gregory J. Gerling
   
• Best Student Presentation Award
  Comparing Proprioceptive Acuity in the Arm between Joint Space and Task Space
  Sean M. Sketch, Amy J. Bastian, and Allison M. Okamura
  

The other three finalists for Best Student Presentation were:

• Imaging the 3-D Deformation of the Finger Pad When Interacting with Compliant Materials by Steven C. Hauser and Gregory J. Gerling
• Performance and Stability Limitations of Admittance-Based Haptic Interfaces by Chembian Parthiban and Michael Zinn
• Too Hot, too Fast! Using the Thermal Grill Illusion to Explore Dynamic Thermal Perception by Shriniwas Patwardhan, Anzu Kawazoe, David Kerr, Masashi Nakatani, and Yon Visell

Best Work-in-Progress Paper Award ($500)

All WIP papers were eligible for this award. The winner was chosen by vote of conference attendees based on the teaser, the poster, and the WIP paper itself.  The votes were tallied by the Awards Chair.

Winner:

• Design and Analysis of a High Performance Impedance Based Hybrid Haptic Interface
  Patrick Dills, Chembian Parthiban, It Fufuengsin, Nick Colonnese, and Michael Zinn
  

Best Demonstration Award ($1000)

All demonstrations were eligible for the best demonstration award. Finalists and winners were chosen by a panel of jurors based on innovation, quality, and presentation of the demonstration.

Winner:

• FOLDAWAY Touch – A Force Rendering Joystick for Virtual and Augmented Reality
  Stefano Mintchev, Marco Salerno, Alexandre Cherpillod, Simone Scaduto, and Jamie Paik
  

The other three finalists for Best Demonstration were:

• Toward Improved Surgical Training: Mirror Tracing by William H. Jantscher, Shivam Pandey, Priyanshu Agarwal, Sadie H. Richardson, Bowie R. Lin, Michael D. Byrne, and Marcia K. O'Malley
• Estimation and Presentation of Racket Grip Vibration with Tennis Video by Kentaro Yoshida, Yuuki Horiuchi, Tomohiro Ichiyama, Seki Inoue, Yasutoshi Makino, and Hiroyuki Shinoda
• A Tactile Display with Touch Sensing using a High-Density Microfluidic Chip by Alexander Russomanno, Hrishikesh Rao, Thanasarn Tantivirun, Sile O'Modhrain, and R. Brent Gillespie

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Paper Award ($1000, Sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society)

All papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Haptics in the previous calendar year are eligible. The Transactions on Haptics Editorial Board selects the final candidate papers, and the Editor in Chief makes the final selection of the winning paper. Scientific and technological excellence are the criteria for judging the papers.

Winner:

• Characterizing and Imaging Gross and Real Finger Contacts Under Dynamic Loading
  Séréna Bochereau, Brygida Dzidek, Michael Adams, and Vincent Hayward 
  

IEEE Transactions on Haptics Best Application Paper Award ($1000, Sponsored by Alps Electric Co.) 

All papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Haptics in the previous calendar year are eligible. The Transactions on Haptics Editorial Board selects the final candidate papers, and the Editor in Chief makes the final selection of the winning paper. Criteria for judging the papers are significance of the new applications, scientific and technological excellence, originality, and clarity of presentation.

Winner:

• Using Pot-Magnets to Enable Stable and Scalable Electromagnetic Tactile Displays 
  Juan José Zárate and Herbert Shea