If the description of this event sounds relevant to your interests and you are able to be in London on 23rd October 2013, the organisers and speakers REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT
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The Virtual Object and Haptic Interfaces
An interdisciplinary event led by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Margaret Cox and David Prytherch
Council Room, King’s College London, Strand
23 October 2013, 2-5pm
Part of the King’s Arts & Humanities Festival 2013: Being | Human<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahfest/index.aspx>
Presented by Department of Digital Humanities
This event is free and open to all but booking<https://hapticinterfaces.eventbrite.co.uk/> is required.
It may not be immediately obvious what museum objects, such as sculpture, may have in common with drilling teeth; or how eighteenth-century poetry may help with describing experience of touch, virtually simulated through the use of computers; or why an artist and haptic computer-interface specialist is helping with research into dementia. This interdisciplinary event brings together experts in and users of machine haptics and explores the potential of 3D imaging and haptic technologies in research, teaching and learning across a variety of disciplines. The panel will debate how we can reciprocally stimulate new ideas and approaches to historical research, medical sciences, the creative arts and contemporary museum education. The session will include brief presentations, demonstrations and general discussion. Those with no previous experience of computer haptics will have the opportunity to experience this technology first hand, and develop critical appreciation of perceptual processes involved.
Simulating touch in a virtual environment is not straightforward. It requires, among other things, a good understanding of the human touch which varies from one individual to another and how to represent the consequences of human tactile actions. Can this perceptual, emotional and cultural experience be satisfactorily replicated virtually? What human and technological considerations are the most challenging?
For more information please visit the event page
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2013-2014/Festival/Haptic.aspx
Comments welcome at Art & Science of Touch http://artandscienceoftouch.wordpress.com/
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Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
26-29 Drury Lane
London WC2B 5RL
Tel: +44(0)20 7848 1421
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http://bentkowska.wordpress.com
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