The sense of touch (haptics) has been applied in several areas such as tele-haptics, tele-
medicine, training, education, and entertainment. As of today, haptics is used and explored …

Encountered-Type Haptic Displays (ETHDs) provide haptic feedback by positioning a
tangible surface for the user to encounter. This permits users to freely eliciting haptic …

Drones have expanded from military operations to performing a broad range of civilian
applications. As drone usage increases, humans will interact with such systems more often …

We present a new handheld haptic device, Thor's Hammer, which uses propeller propulsion
to generate ungrounded, 3-DOF force feedback. Thor's Hammer has six motors and …

Quadcopters have been used as hovering encountered-type haptic devices in virtual reality.
We suggest that quadcopters can facilitate rich haptic interactions beyond force feedback by …

We present VRHapticDrones, a system utilizing quadcopters as levitating haptic feedback
proxy. A touchable surface is attached to the side of the quadcopters to provide unintrusive …

We present Haptic Links, electro-mechanically actuated physical connections capable of
rendering variable stiffness between two commodity handheld virtual reality (VR) controllers …

Personal drones are becoming more mainstream and are used for a variety of tasks, such as
delivery and photography. The exposed blades in conventional drones raise serious safety …

Force feedback is said to be the next frontier in virtual reality (VR). Recently, with consumers
pushing forward with untethered VR, researchers turned away from solutions based on …

The design space of social drones, where autonomous flyers operate in close proximity to
human users or bystanders, is distinct from use cases involving a remote human operator …