tangerineX
tangerineX
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interface that touches us back
Our Mission
We Create haptic interfaces that enrich people's lives
What is Haptics? Simply put, it is sensing and manipulation through the sense of touch.
Despite haptics research and technology development in the past 20+ years, most commercial systems are still stuck with a simple vibrational alert for feedback.
We want to change that! We want to create nuanced and rich haptic sensations with existing and novel actuators.
Adding haptic feedback to the vast visual and audio information out there can only get us so far.
Creating from the start an experience with haptics as an integral part is the way to go.
We envision a future where we will miss haptics if it is taken away.
Our Services
Collaborative Projects
Joint development of advanced
haptic sensations
Haptics Education
Education of a broad audience of haptics
and its applications
Consulting
Expert witness in patent litigation
involving haptics
tutorial 1
How to Specify Vibration Intensity in Sensation Level
This tutorial explains human detection threshold and sensation level
tutorial 2
So You Think You Have an Awesome Tactor?
This tutorial discusses the important metrics for assessing an actuator for haptics applications
tutorial 3
How Does Perceived Intensity Grow with Vibration Amplitude?
This tutorial presents the equal sensation magnitude contours for displacement and accelerat
Tutorials
Wei Liu
Chief Design Officer
Wei Liu, PhD, is a board member of International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction. His research interests are in developing methods, techniques and tools to optimize design processes for user centered interaction design. He holds a PhD on interaction design research from Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. He has worked as an assistant professor in the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University, a user experience design lead at Autodesk and an interaction designer at Motorola.
Our Team
Hong Tan
CEO & Founder
Hong is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, with courtesy appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Psychological Sciences. Hong has recently led haptics technology development and managed the Human Computer Interaction group at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, China. A veteran haptics researcher for over 20 years, Hong is best known for her work on haptics psychophysics, taking a human-centered approach to developing haptic interfaces that match our sensorimotor capabilities. Hong earned her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees tin Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Arnold Chen
Advisor
Arnold’s expertise includes start-up companies (semiconductor hardware), culture, team building, manufacturing, and operations. Prior to joining the Purdue Foundry, Arnold spent the last 17 years at the epicenter of entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, working at 3 different start-ups, one of which was acquired and one went IPO. Arnold is a Purdue alumus (BSEE’91), and received his M.S. (’93) and Ph.D. (’96) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.