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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>In case this talk announcement hasn’t made it to the lab yet….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;color:inherit;padding:inherit;margin:inherit'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><a href="http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/MATSeminar-Spring2018-April9--Allison_Okamura.html">http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/MATSeminar-Spring2018-April9--Allison_Okamura.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=1130 style='width:847.5pt;background:whitesmoke'><tr><td width=36 style='width:27.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=1074 style='width:805.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td width=6 style='width:4.5pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width=935 style='width:701.25pt'><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=608 height=198 id=DC17B687-FAC3-4382-892D-37F07763DB0C src="cid:FE76C79D-16B3-4011-9458-1B335AA09AB2"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=790 height=50 id="_x0036_1F404CA-365B-41D9-88B1-4C2DAFFDE7C3" src="cid:0D32D3D0-F036-4714-8095-088EA0E78BB0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><a href="http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/"><span style='color:red;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=509 height=163 id="_x0035_B53AF72-F3D0-42AA-93E6-5FD95D76D1A2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D3D307.FC5B73C0"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=titletalk><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;text-transform:uppercase'>ENGINEERING HAPTIC ILLUSIONS</span></b></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><span class=infodatesnormal>\</span><br><span class=infodatesnormal>MONDAY. APRIL.16TH. 2018 · 1PM · ELINGS 1601</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td width=537 valign=top style='width:402.75pt;padding:.75pt 22.5pt .75pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>/<br>Haptic (touch) feedback can play myriad roles in enhancing human performance and safety in skilled tasks. In teleoperated surgical robotics, force feedback improves the ability of a human operator to effectively manipulate and explore patient tissues that are remote in distance and scale. In virtual and augmented reality, wearable and touchable devices use combinations of kinesthetic (force) and cutaneous (tactile) feedback to make rich, immersive haptic feedback both more compelling and practical. In this talk, I will present a collection of novel haptic devices, control algorithms, and user performance studies that demonstrate a wide range of effective design approaches and promising real-world applications for haptic feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=infobiomail><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'>/</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'><br><span class=infobiomail>Allison M. Okamura received the BS degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University in 1996 and 2000, respectively, all in mechanical engineering. She is currently Professor in the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in computer science. She was previously Professor and Vice Chair of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics, editor-in-chief of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Conference Editorial Board, an editor of the International Journal of Robotics Research, and co-chair of the IEEE Haptics Symposium. Her awards include the 2016 Duca Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, 2009 IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics Early Career Award, 2005 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award, and 2004 NSF CAREER Award. She is an IEEE Fellow. Her academic interests include haptics, teleoperation, virtual environments and simulators, medical robotics, neuromechanics and rehabilitation, prosthetics, and engineering education. Outside academia, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, running, and playing ice hockey.</span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td><td width=388 valign=top style='width:291.0pt;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=178 height=72 id="_x0034_304977F-1BCA-4415-AEE3-BEB06D0E0EA7" src="cid:image002.png@01D3D307.FC5B73C0"><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><a href="http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;text-decoration:none'><br>seminar.mat.ucsb.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr></table></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>_________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>