Tools and Data
Github: An Open ultrasonic phased-array for applications in acoustic levitation, haptic feedback, directive audio and many more. Link to github
Instructables: 9 Step guide to build your own SonicSurface. Link to Instructables
BOOKS and Special Issues
Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Touchless Interfaces, Orestis Georgiou, William Frier, Euan Freeman, Claudio Pacchierotti, and Takayuki Hoshi, Springer-Nature, Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS), 2022
Haptics in the Metaverse: Haptic feedback for Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, and eXtended Realities, Claudio Pacchierotti, Francesco Chinello, Konstantinos Koumaditis, Massimiliano Di Luca, Eyal Ofek, and Orestis Georgiou, IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) (2024).
RESEARCH PAPERS
2021
Generating Airborne Ultrasonic Amplitude Patterns Using an Open Hardware Phased Array, Morales, R., Ezcurdia, I., Irisarri, J., Andrade, M. A., & Marzo, A., MDPI, Applied Science, 2021
PhantomFields: fast time and spatial multiplexation of acoustic fields for generation of superresolution patterns, Elizondo Martínez, Sonia, Jaime Goñi, Mikel Galar Idoate, and Asier Marzo Pérez. online link, (2021).
2022
Interplay of tactile and motor information in constructing spatial self-perception, Antonio Cataldo, Lucile Dupin, Harriet, Dempsey-Jones, Hiroaki Gomi, & Patrick Haggard., Current Biology, Cell Press, 2022
Whole-Hand Haptics for Mid-air Buttons, Martin Maunsbach, Kasper Hornbæk, and Hasti Seif, International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, Eurohaptics, 2022
Sense of Agency Over Hands-free Gestural Control is Modulated by the Timing of Haptic Feedback, Calvin Deans-Browne, Antonio Cataldo, William Frier, Hannah Limerick, David Beattie, Patrick Haggard, International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, Eurohaptics, 2022
Mid-air haptic biosignal transfer, Daria Hemmerling, Maciej Stroinski, Kamil Kwarciak, Maciej Szymkowski, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou and Mykola Maksymenko, International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, Eurohaptics, demo paper, 2022.
Mid-air haptic biosignal transfer, Daria Hemmerling, Maciej Stroinski, Kamil Kwarciak, Maciej Szymkowski, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou and Mykola Maksymenko, International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, Eurohaptics, WIP paper, 2022.
The Sense of Agency in Emerging Technologies for Human-Computer Integration: A Review, Patricia Cornelio, Patrick Haggard, Kasper Hornbaek, Orestis Georgiou, Joanna Bergström, Sriram Subramanian and Marianna Obrist, Front. Neurosci., 2022.
A user-derived mapping for mid-air haptic experiences, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Joanna Bergström, Marianna Obrist, Kasper Hornbæk, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2022.
Touchless touch with biosignal transfer for online communication, Daria Joanna Hemmerling, Maciej Stroinski, Kamil Kwarciak, Krzysztof Trusiak, Maciej Szymkowski, Weronika Celniak, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou, Mykola Maksymenko, ACM ICMI, download link, 2022.
Comparison of Experiment and Simulation of Ultrasonic Mid-air Haptic Forces, Rafael Morales, Orestis Georgiou, Asier Marzo, William Frier, International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET). IEEE, 2022.
On Quick Measurement of Airborne Ultrasound Pressure Fields, Zak Morgan, Youngjun Cho, Sriram Subramanian, International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET). IEEE, 2022.
Touch the Story: An immersive mid-air haptic experience, Anna Sheremetieva, Ihor Romanv, Sam Frish, Mykola Maksymenko, Orestis Georgiou, International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET) demo paper, 2022.
LeviPrint: Contactless Fabrication using Full Acoustic Trapping of Elongated Parts, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Rafael Morales, Marco AB Andrade, Asier Marzo, ACM SIGGRAPH, download link, 2022.
A Multi-Object Grasp Technique for Placement of Objects in Virtual Reality, Unai J Fernández, Sonia Elizondo, Naroa Iriarte, Rafael Morales, Amalia Ortiz, Sebastian Marichal, Oscar Ardaiz, Asier Marzo, MDPI Applied Sciences, 2022.
User Experience and Mid-Air Haptics: Applications, Methods, and Challenges, Orestis Georgiou, William Frier, and Oliver Schneider, Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Touchless Interfaces, Springer Nature, download link, (2022)
Prototyping Airborne Ultrasonic Arrays, Asier Marzo, Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Touchless Interfaces, download link, Springer Nature (2022)
Mid-Air Haptics: Future Challenges and Opportunities, Orestis Georgiou, William Frier, Euan Freeman, Claudio Pacchierotti, and Takayuki Hoshi, Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics for Touchless Interfaces, Springer Nature, download link, (2022)
LevPet: A Magnetic Levitating Spherical Pet with Affective Reactions, Josune Sorbet, Sonia Elizondo, Naroa Iriarte, Amalia Ortiz, Asier Marzo, In 22nd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, download link, (2022)
UltraButton: A Minimalist Touchless Multimodal Haptic Button, Rafael Morales, Dario Pittera, Orestis Georgiou, Brian Kappus, William Frier, in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, download link, (2022)
TipTrap: A Co-located Direct Manipulation Technique for Acoustically Levitated Content, Eimontas Jankauskis, Sonia Elizondo, Roberto Montano Murillo, Asier Marzo, Diego Martinez Plasencia, ACM UIST, download link, (2022)
Complex selective manipulations of thermomagnetic programmable matter, Josu Irisarri, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Xabier Sandua, Itziar Galarreta-Rodriguez, Jose Ignacio Pérez-Landazabal, and Asier Marzo , Nature Scientific Reports, download link, (2022)
2023
OpenMPD: A low-level presentation engine for Multimodal Particle-based Displays. Montano-Murillo, Roberto, Ryuji Hirayama, and Diego Martinez Plasencia, ACM Transactions on Graphics, SIGGRAPH, download link, (2023).
MindTouch: Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Mid-Air Tactile Perception., Vasudevan, Madhan Kumar, Shu Zhong, Jan Kučera, Desiree Cho, and Marianna Obrist. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, download link, pp. 1-12. 2023.
Responsible Innovation of Touchless Haptics: A Prospective Design Exploration in Social Interaction. Cornelio, Patricia, Stephen Hughes, Orestis Georgiou, William Frier, Martin Maunsbach, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, and Marianna Obrist, In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, download link, pp. 1-16. 2023.
Multi-point STM: Effects of Drawing Speed and Number of Focal Points on Users’ Responses using Ultrasonic Mid-Air Haptics, Shen, Zhouyang, Madhan Kumar Vasudevan, Jan Kučera, Marianna Obrist, and Diego Martinez Plasencia, In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, download link, pp. 1-11. 2023.
FabTouch: A tool to enable communication and design of tactile and affective fabric experiences, Xue, Jing, Bruna Beatriz Petreca, Christopher Dawes, and Marianna Obrist, In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-16, download link. 2023.
Feellustrator: A Design Tool for Ultrasound Mid-Air Haptics, Seifi, Hasti, Sean Chew, Antony James Nascè, William Edward Lowther, William Frier, and Kasper Hornbæk, In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-16., download link, 2023.
TOUCHLESS: Demonstrations of Contactless Haptics for Affective Touch, Sean Chew, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Martin Maunsbach, Hasti Seifi, Joanna Bergström, Kasper Hornbæk, Josu Irisarri, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Naroa Iriarte, Asier Marzo, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou, Anna Sheremetieva, Kamil Kwarciak, Maciej Stroinski, Daria Joanna Hemmerling, Mykola Maksymenko, Antonio Cataldo, Marianna Obrist, Patrick Haggard, and Sriram Subramanian, In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-5), download link, 2023.
Contactless Electrostatic Piloerection for Haptic Sensations, Iriarte, Naroa, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Sonia Elizondo, Josu Irisarri, Daria Hemmerling, Amalia Ortiz, and Asier Marzo, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, download link, 2023.
What's my future: a Multisensory and Multimodal Digital Human Agent Interactive Experience, Anna Sheremetieva, Ihor Romanovych, Sam Frish, Mykola Maksymenko, Orestis Georgiou, In Proceedings of the 2023 IMX Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, download link, 2023.
Does it par-tickle?: Investigating the relationship between mid-air haptics and visual representations of surface textures, Katarzyna Wojna, Orestis Georgious, David Beattie, Michael Wright, Christof Lutteroth, In Proceedings of the IEEE ToH-World Haptics Conference (WHC), download link, 2023.
An Exploration of Just Noticeable Differences in Mid-Air Haptics, Katarzyna Wojna, Orestis Georgiou, David Beattie, William Frier, Michael Wright, Christof Lutteroth, In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), download link, 2023.
I see where this is going”: a psychophysical study of directional mid-air haptics and apparent tactile motion, Pittera, Dario, Orestis Georgiou, and William Frier. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, download link, (2023).
A Touch of the Future: The TOUCHLESS Hackathon 2022, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Arpit Bhatia, Martin Maunsbach, ACM ICGJ '23, download link, 2023
Haptic Magnetism, Tor-Salve Dalsgaard, Kasper Hornbæk, and Joanna Bergstrom, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, download link, (2023).
The Limits of Touch: Spatial acuity for frequency-resolved air-borne ultrasound vibrotactile stimuli, Antonio Cataldo, William Frier, Patrick Haggard, download link, 2023
Interhemispheric communication during haptic self-perception, Gaiqing Kong, Antonio Cataldo, Miruna Nitu, Lucile Dupin, Hiroaki Gomi and Patrick Haggard, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, download link, (2023)
Mediated social touching: haptic feedback affects social experience of touch initiators, Martin Maunsbach, Kasper Hornbæk, Hasti Seifi, In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), download link, 2023.
Mid-air Contactless Haptics to augment VR experiences, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Unai Fernandez, Xabier Olaz, and Asier Marzo. In The 28th International ACM Conference on 3D Web Technology, pp. 1-2. download link, 2023.
Voluntary control of crying, Ota Keiji, Slanina-Davies Ashley, Christofilea Eleni, Seghezzi Silvia, Mateusz Kowalewski, Daria Hemmerling, and Haggard Patrick, Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society, poster link, 2023.
Quantifying spatial acuity of frequency resolved midair ultrasound vibrotactile stimuli, Antonio Cataldo, William Frier and Patrick Haggard, Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 21149, download link, 2023.
Design of an Immersive Virtual Reality Framework to Enhance the Sense of Agency Using Affective Computing Technologies., Ortiz, Amalia, and Sonia Elizondo. Applied Sciences 13.24 (2023): 13322.
Hand-as-a-prop: using the hand as a haptic proxy for manipulation in virtual reality, Marichal, Sebastian, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Rafael Morales, Amalia Ortiz, Asier Marzo, and Oscar Ardaiz, Virtual Reality 27.4 (2023): 2911-2925.
Enhancing the quality of amplitude patterns using time-multiplexed virtual acoustic fields, Elizondo, Sonia, Iñigo Ezcurdia, Jaime Goñi, Mikel Galar, and Asier Marzo. Applied Physics Letters 123, no. 15 (2023).
Comparing a Mid-air Two-Hand Pinching Point-and-Click Technique with Mouse, Keyboard and TouchFree, Lafuente, Melchor, Sonia Elizondo, Unai J. Fernández, and Asier Marzo. In XXIII International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, pp. 1-4. 2023.
It Sounds Cool: Exploring Sonification of Mid-Air Haptic Textures Exploration on Texture Judgments, Body Perception, and Motor Behaviour, Montano-Murillo, Roberto, Dario Pittera, William Frier, Orestis Georgiou, Marianna Obrist, and Patricia Cornelio. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 2023.
2024
Active self-touch restores bodily self-awareness following disruption by “rubber hand illusion”, Damiano Crivelli, Antonio Cataldo, Gabriella Bottini, Hiroaki Gomi, & Patrick Haggard, Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291, no. 2015: 20231753, download link, 2024.