News

November 17, 2022

Dr. Lynette Jones gave the keynote talk on "Time and Space and the Thermal Senses" at the Tactile Research Group Annual Meeting


July 10, 2021

Dr. Lynette Jones was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics in recognition of efforts to develop a publishing mechanism between the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, the Haptics Symposium, and the World Haptics Conference


September 18, 2020

Haptics, by Dr. Lynette Jones has been translated into Korean and published by Gimm-Young pubishers


September 4, 2018

Haptics, by Dr. Lynette Jones has been published by MIT Press


December 6, 2017

Dr. Lynette Jones was elected an IEEE Fellow for her contributions to tactile and thermal displays


June 6-9, 2017

"Perceptual Interactions in Thermo-tactile Displays" presented in IEEE World Haptics 2017 in Germany


March 22, 2017

Anshul Singhal, a graduate student in the lab, and his teammate, Pranay Jain, have worked on the development of educational devices for blind students. Their work was featured in the MIT News today


March 22, 2017

IEEE Transactions on Haptics has extended the deadline for submission of papers to its latest special issue on Applications of Smart Materials to Haptics to May 1, 2017


January 1, 2017

"Multidirectional in vivo characterization of skin using Wiener nonlinear stochastic system identification techniques." was published in the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering


January 1, 2017

Dr. Lynette Jones has been appointed to a second three-year term as Editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics beginning January 1, 2017


July 7, 2016

Congratulations to Anshul Singhal for receiving an Honorable Mention in Best Student Paper in EuroHaptics 2016 in London!


April 11, 2016

Congratulations to Anshul Singhal for receiving Runner-up in Best Student Paper at IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016!


April 11, 2016

"Space-time interactions and the perceived location of cold stimuli," by Anshul Singhal and Dr. Lynette Jones, was published in IEEE Haptics Symposium 2016


June 22, 2015

"Dimensionality of thermal icons," by Anshul Singhal and Dr. Lynette Jones, was published in IEEE World Haptics 2015