Haptics Technologies by Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

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Treating haptics as a new medium rather than a sub-domain of robotics or virtual reality, this book covers the fundamental principles, explains the software architecture, and shows the applications of this emerging technology along with its attendant trends.

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Haptics Technologies by Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Treating haptics as a new medium rather than a sub-domain of robotics or virtual reality, this book covers the fundamental principles, explains the software architecture, and shows the applications of this emerging technology along with its attendant trends.

Abdulmotaleb El Saddik is University Research Chair and Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada.  He is the director of the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab). He has been the General Chair and/or Technical Program Chair of more than 25 international conferences, symposia and workshops on collaborative hapto-audio-visual environments, multimedia communications and instrumentation and measurement. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 publications, and his research has been selected for Best Paper Award three times. In addition, Abdulmotaleb was the recipient of the Professional of the Year Award (2008), the Friedrich Wilhelm-Bessel Research Award from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007), the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA 2004), and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) New Professorship Incentive Award (2004). He is a Senior Member of ACM, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and Fellow of IEEE.

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ISBN 13 9783642226571
ISBN 10 3642226574
Title Haptics Technologies
Author Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Series Springer Series On Touch And Haptic Systems
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer
Year published 2011-09-10
Number of pages 220
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