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  • 2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to wearable haptics

Overview

Hong Z. Tan is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily spans neuroscience, computer science, and psychology, with notable contributions in subfields including cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, human-computer interaction, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The central topics addressed in their work involve tactile and sensory interactions, multisensory perception and integration, interactive and immersive displays, teleoperation and haptic systems, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, virtual reality applications and impacts, and advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials.

Their recent publications include:

  • Super-resolution wearable electrotactile rendering system (2022) in Science Advances
  • Methodology for Maximizing Information Transmission of Haptic Devices: A Survey (2020) in Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Acquisition of 500 English Words through a TActile Phonemic Sleeve (TAPS) (2020) in IEEE Transactions on Haptics
  • Haptic Communication of Language (2023) in IEEE Transactions on Haptics
  • Tactile and Chemical Sensing With Haptic Feedback for a Telepresence Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot (2023) in IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Hong Z. Tan has published extensively in the following venues:

  • IEEE Transactions on Haptics
  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Juan S. Martinez
  • Charlotte M. Reed
  • Ahmed Farooq
  • Seungmoon Choi
  • Yang Jiao

In addition to journal articles, Hong Z. Tan has contributed to books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including a title focused on design, user experience, and usability published in 2022.

Recognized for contributions to wearable haptics, Hong Z. Tan was named an IEEE Fellow in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Human factors for the design of force-reflecting haptic interfaces

    HZ Tan;B Eberman;MA Srinivasan;B Cheng

  • Using spatial vibrotactile cues to direct visual attention in driving scenes

    Cristy Ho;Hong Z. Tan;Charles Spence

  • Tactual displays for wearable computing

    H.Z. Tan;A. Pentland

  • A Haptic Back Display for Attentional and Directional Cueing

    Hong Z. Tan;Robert Gray;J. Jay Young;Ryan Traylor

  • Haptic Feedback Enhances Force Skill Learning

    D. Morris;Hong Tan;F. Barbagli;T. Chang

  • Application of Psychophysical Techniques to Haptic Research

    L. A. Jones;H. Z. Tan

  • A sensing chair using pressure distribution sensors

    H.Z. Tan;L.A. Slivovsky;A. Pentland

  • Manual discrimination of compliance using active pinch grasp: The roles of force and work cues

    H Z Tan;N I Durlach;G L Beauregard;M A Srinivasan

  • Driver reaction time to tactile and auditory rear-end collision warnings while talking on a cell phone

    Rayka Mohebbi;Robert Gray;Hong Z. Tan

  • A wearable haptic navigation guidance system

    S. Ertan;C. Lee;A. Willets;H. Tan

  • Information transmission with a multifinger tactual display.

    Hong Z. Tan;Nathaniel I. Durlach;Charlotte M. Reed;William M. Rabinowitz

  • The failure to detect tactile change: A tactile analogue of visual change blindness

    Alberto Gallace;Alberto Gallace;Hong Z. Tan;Charles Spence

  • The body surface as a communication system: The state of the art after 50 years

    Alberto Gallace;Hong Z. Tan;Charles Spence

  • Haptic discrimination of force direction and the influence of visual information

    Federico Barbagli;Ken Salisbury;Cristy Ho;Charles Spence

  • Toward realistic haptic rendering of surface textures

    Seungmoon Choi;Hong Z. Tan

  • Numerosity judgments for tactile stimuli distributed over the body surface

    Alberto Gallace;Hong Z Tan;Charles Spence

  • Optimum Information Transfer Rates for Communication through Haptic and Other Sensory Modalities

    Hong Z Tan;Charlotte M Reed;Nathaniel I Durlach

  • Tactor Localization at the Wrist

    Hsiang-Yu Chen;Joseph Santos;Matthew Graves;Kwangtaek Kim

  • Dynamic and predictive links between touch and vision

    Robert Gray;Hong Z. Tan

  • Detection Threshold and Mechanical Impedance of the Hand in a Pen-Hold Posture

    A. Israr;Seungmoon Choi;H.Z. Tan

  • Information transmission with a multi-finger tactual display.

    H Z Tan;N I Durlach;W M Rabinowitz;C M Reed

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Spence
Charles Spence University of Oxford
Seungmoon Choi
Seungmoon Choi Pohang University of Science and Technology
Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
Alberto Gallace
Alberto Gallace University of Milano-Bicocca
Mauro Barni
Mauro Barni University of Siena
Domenico Prattichizzo
Domenico Prattichizzo University of Siena
M. Gail Jones
M. Gail Jones North Carolina State University
Roberta L. Klatzky
Roberta L. Klatzky Carnegie Mellon University
J. Edward Colgate
J. Edward Colgate Northwestern University

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