1. Zhi-Ni Zhang, Hong Zhang, and Tian-Ge Zhuang, "One-dimensional extraction of paper-written ECG image and its archiving," SPIE Proceedings: Digital Image Processing in Medicine, Vol. 845, Boston, MA, pp. 419-422, 1987.   PDF (510KB)
2. Hong Z. Tan, Xiao-Dong Pang, and Nathaniel I. Durlach, "Manual resolution of length, force, and compliance," In Proceedings of the First (1st) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 42, Anaheim, CA, pp. 13-18, 1992.   PDF (1024KB)
3. Hong Z. Tan, Nathaniel I. Durlach, Yun Shao, and Min Wei, "Manual resolution of compliance when force and work cues are minimized," In Proceedings of the Second (2nd) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 49, New Orleans, LA, pp. 99-104, 1993.   PDF (669KB)
4. Hong Z. Tan, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Brian Eberman, and Belinda Cheng, "Human factors for the design of force-reflecting haptic interfaces." In Proceedings of the Third (3rd) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 55(1), Chicago, IL, pp. 353-359, 1994.   PDF (1.1MB)
5. Hong Z. Tan and William M. Rabinowitz, "A new multi-finger tactual display," In Proceedings of the Fifth (5th) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 58, Atlanta, GA, pp. 515-522, 1996.   PDF (1.1MB)
6. Hong Z. Tan and Alex Pentland, "Tactual displays for wearable computing," Digest of the First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Oct. 13-14, Cambridge, MA, pp. 84-89, 1997.   PDF (575KB)
7. Hong Z. Tan, "Identification of size using the PHANToM(tm): Towards a set of building blocks for rendering haptic environment," In Proceedings of the Sixth (6th) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 61, Dallas, TX, pp. 197-203, 1997.   PDF (1.0MB)
8. Sevgi Ertan, Clare Lee, Abigail Willets, Hong Tan and Alex Pentland, "A wearable haptic navigation guidance system." In Digest of the Second International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Oct. 19-20, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 164-165, 1998.   PDF (368KB)
9. Hong Z. Tan, "A sensing chair," In Proceedings of the Eighth (8th) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 67, Nashville, TN, pp. 313-317, 1999.
10. Lynne A. Slivovsky and Hong Z. Tan, "A real-time static posture classification system," Proceedings of the Ninth (9th) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 69-2, S. S. Nair (Ed.), Orlando, FL, pp. 1049-1056, 2000.   PDF (2.4MB)
11. Hong Tan, Adrian Lim, and Ryan Traylor, "A psychophysical study of sensory saltation with an open response paradigm," In Proceedings of the Ninth (9th) International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 69-2, S. S. Nair (Ed.), Orlando, FL, pp. 1109-1115, 2000.   PDF (1.0MB)
12. Hong Z. Tan, Robert Gray, J. Jay Young, and Piti Irawan, "Haptic cueing of a visual change-detection task: Implications for multimodal interfaces," In Usability Evaluation and Interface Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality (Vol. 1 of the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), M. J. Smith, G. Salvendy, D. Harris, and R. J. Koubek (Eds.), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Orleans, LA, pp. 678-682, 2001.   PDF (265KB)
13. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "An analysis of perceptual instability during haptic texture rendering," In Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Computer Society, Orlando, FL, pp. 129-136, 2002.   PDF (317KB)
14. Ryan Traylor and Hong Z. Tan, "Development of a wearable haptic display for situation awareness in altered-gravity environment: Some initial findings," Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Computer Society, Orlando, FL, pp. 159-164, 2002.   PDF (1.7MB)
15. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "A study on the sources of perceptual instability during haptic texture rendering," Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2002), Washington, D.C., May 11-15, pp. 1261-1268, 2002.   PDF (850KB)
16. Rob Gray, Hong Z. Tan and J. Jay Young, "Do multimodal signals need to come from the same place? Crossmodal attentional links between proximal and distal surfaces," Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 14-16, pp. 437-441, 2002.   PDF (282KB)
17. J. Jay Young, Hong Z. Tan and Rob Gray, "Validity of haptic cues and its effect on priming visual spatial attention," Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Computer Society, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 22-23, pp. 166-170, 2003.   PDF (542KB)
18. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "An experimental study of perceived instability during haptic texture rendering: Effects of collision detection algorithm," Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Computer Society, Los Angeles, LA, Mar. 22-23, pp. 197-204, 2003.   PDF (353KB)
19. Manli Zhu, Aleix M. Martinez and Hong Z. Tan, "Template-based recognition of static sitting postures," Proceedings of The Workshop on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for Human Computer Interaction, held at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR03), IEEE Computer Society, Madison, Wisconsin, June 17, 6 pp., 2003.   PDF (376KB)
20. Shuo Yang, Hong Z. Tan, Pietro Buttolo, Matthew R. Johnston and Zygmunt Pizlo, "Thresholds for dynamic changes in a rotary switch," Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2003, July 6-9, pp. 343-350, 2003.   PDF (987KB)
21. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "Aliveness: Perceived instability from a passive haptic texture rendering system," Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2003), Las Vegas, NV, pp. 2678-2683, 2003.   PDF (779KB)
22. Laron Walker and Hong Z. Tan, "A perceptual study on haptic rendering of surface topography when both surface height and stiffness vary," Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, IEEE Computer Society, Chicago, IL, pp. 138-145, Mar. 27-28, 2004.   PDF (1.4MB)
23. Shuo Yang, Hong Z. Tan, Pietro Buttolo, and Matthew R. Johnston, "Detection of torque vibrations transmitted through a passively-held rotary switch," Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2004, Munich, Germany, pp. 217-222, June 5-7, 2004.   PDF (1.6MB)
24. Annette M. Stolle, Rupert Hölzl, Dieter Kleinböhl, Antonija Mrsic, and Hong Z. Tan, "Measuring point localization errors in spatiotemporal tactile stimulus patterns," Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2004, Munich, Germany, pp. 512-515, June 5-7, 2004.   PDF (766KB)
25. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "Effect of update rate on perceived instability of virtual haptic texture," Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2004), Sendai, Japan, pp. 3577-3582, Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 2004.   PDF (548KB)
26. Ali Israr, Peter H. Meckl, and Hong Z. Tan, "A two DOF controller for a multi-finger tactual display using a loop-shaping technique," Proceedings of the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE04), Anaheim, CA, pp. 1083-1089, Nov. 13-20, 2004.   PDF (424KB)
27. Alberto Gallace, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "Tactile change detection," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 12-16, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   PDF (313KB)
28. Domenico Prattichizzo, Mauro Barni, Hong Z. Tan, and Seungmoon Choi, "Perceptibility of haptic digital watermarking of virtual textures," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 50-55, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   PDF (118KB)
29. Anu Bhargava, Michael Scott, Ryan Traylor, Roy Chung, Kimberly Mrozek, Jonathan Wolter, and Hong Z. Tan, "Effect of cognitive load on tactor location identification in zero-g," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 56-62, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   PDF (252KB)
30. Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "Discrimination of virtual haptic textures rendered with different update rates," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 114-119, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   PDF (916KB)
31. Hong Z. Tan, Laron Walker, Ron Reifenberger, Sorubh Mahadoo, George Chiu, Arvind Raman, Aron Helser, and Pablo Colilla, "A haptic interface for human-in-the-loop manipulation at the nanoscale," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 271-276, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   PDF(extended version, 660KB)
32. Ross Maciejewski, Seungmoon Choi, David S. Ebert, and Hong Z. Tan, "Multi-modal perceptualization of volumetric data and its application to molecular docking," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 511-514, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   Paper (219KB)   Poster (525KB)
33. Ryan Traylor, Danny Wilhelm, Bernard D. Adelstein, and Hong Z. Tan, "Design considerations for stand-alone haptic interfaces communicating via UDP protocol," Proceedings of the 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, pp. 563-564, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   Paper (246KB)   Paper (extended version, 375KB)   Poster (2128KB)
34. Hong Z. Tan, Bernard D. Adelstein, Ryan Traylor, Matthew Kocsis, and E. Dan Hirleman, "Discrimination of real and virtual high-definition textured surfaces," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Alexandria, VA, pp. 3-9, Mar. 25-26, 2006.   PDF (411KB)
35. Ali Israr, Hong Z. Tan, and Charlotte M. Reed, "Tactual frequency and amplitude discrimination with fixed and roving background," Proceedings of the International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Alexandria, VA, pp. 383-385, Mar. 25-26, 2006.   PDF (210KB)
36. Alessandro Formaglio, Sara Belloni, Gloria Menegaz, Hong Z. Tan, Domenico Prattichizzo, and Mauro Barni, "Perceptibility of digital watermarking in haptically enabled 3D meshes," Proceedings of the EuroHaptics Conference 2006, Paris, France, pp. 407-412, July 3-6, 2006.   PDF (117KB)
37. Cristy Ho, Hong Z. Tan, Federico Barbagli, Ken Salisbury, and Charles Spence, "Isotropy and visual modulation of haptic force direction discrimination on the human finger," Proceedings of the EuroHaptics Conference 2006, Paris, France, pp. 483-486, July 3-6, 2006.   PDF (80KB)
38. Ali Israr, Seungmoon Choi, and Hong Z. Tan, "Detection threshold and mechanical impedance of the hand in a pen-hold posture," Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006), Beijing, China, pp. 472-477, Oct. 9-15, 2006.   PDF (1.5MB)
39. Ali Israr, Seungmoon Choi, and Hong Z. Tan, "Mechanical impedance of the hand holding a spherical tool at threshold and suprathreshold stimulation levels," Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 56-60, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF
40. Matthew Kocsis, Hong Z. Tan, and Bernard D. Adelstein, "Discriminability of real and virtual surfaces with triangular gratings," Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 348-353, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF
41. Dan Morris, Hong Z. Tan, Federico Barbagli, Timothy Chang, and Kenneth Salisbury, "Haptic feedback enhances force skill learning," Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 21-26, Mar. 22-24, 2007. (Winner of the Best Paper Award)   PDF
42. William R. Provancher, Brandt Erickson, Federico Barbagli, and Hong Z. Tan, "Tactile perception of rotational sliding," Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 127-132, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF
43. Steven Cholewiak and Hong Z. Tan, "Frequency analysis of the detectability of virtual haptic gratings," Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 27-32, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF
44. Ali Israr, James Mynderse, George T.-C. Chiu, and Hong Z. Tan, "A psychophysical model of motorcycle handlebar vibrations," Proceedings of the 2007 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE2007), Seattle, Washington, Nov. 11-15, 2007.   PDF
45. Ali Israr, Charlotte M. Reed, and Hong Z. Tan, "Discrimination of vowels with a multi-finger tactual display," Proceedings of the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Reno, NV, Mar. 13-14, pp. 17-24, 2008.   PDF
46. Steve A. Cholewiak, Hong Z. Tan, and David S. Ebert, "Haptic identification of stiffness and force magnitude," Proceedings of the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Reno, NV, Mar. 13-14, pp. 87-91, 2008.   PDF
47. Sumanth Peddamatham, William Peine, and Hong Z. Tan, "Assessment of vibrotactile feedback in a needle-insertion task using a surgical robot," Proceedings of the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Reno, NV, Mar. 13-14, pp. 93-99, 2008.   PDF
48. Hsiang-Yu Chen, Joseph Santos, Matthew Graves, Kwangtaek Kim, and Hong Z. Tan, "Tactor localization at the wrist," Proceedings of the EuroHaptics 2008 Conference, Madrid, Spain, June 10-13, pp. 209-218, 2008.   PDF
49. Curt Salisbury, R. Brent Gillespie, Hong Z. Tan, Federico Barbagli, and J. Kenneth Salisbury, "Effects of haptic device attributes on vibration detection thresholds," Proceedings of the 2009 World Haptics Conference (WHC09): The Third Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 115–120, Mar. 18–20, 2009.   PDF
50. Neil Forrest, Sarah Baillie, and Hong Z. Tan, "Haptic stiffness identification by veterinarians and novices: A comparison," Proceedings of the 2009 World Haptics Conference (WHC09): The Third Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Salt Lake City, UT, pp. 646–651, Mar. 18–20, 2009.   PDF

Invited Full-Length Conference Papers

Hong Z. Tan, Robert Gray, Charles Spence, Chanon M. Jones, and Roslizawaty Mohd Rosli, "The haptic cuing of visual spatial attention: Evidence of a spotlight effect," (invited paper for special session on Haptics), Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIV, B. E. Rogowitz & T. N. Pappas (Eds.), SPIE Vol. 7240-72400I, San Jose, CA, 12 pp., Jan. 18–22, 2009.   PDF Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Non-Refereed Conference Papers & Refereed Abstracts and Posters Hong Z. Tan, Robert R. Ebert, David M. Horowitz, and Corine A. Bickley, "A comprehensive speech recognition service delivery model illustrated with case studies," In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 535-539, 1992. Hong Z. Tan and David M. Horowitz, "Utilizing speech recognition technology to increase productivity," In Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 61-63, 1992. Corine Bickley, Christopher S. Jones, Janet Wang, Hong Z. Tan, Robert Ebert, and David M. Horowitz, "Case study of voice control of AutoCAD, In Proceedings of ECART2, The Swedish Handicap Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 7.3, 1992. Corine Bickley, Hong Tan, and David Horowitz, "Voice input for graphics and text creation: A case study," In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 32-36, 1993. Hong Z. Tan, David M. Horowitz, Aaron Kleiner, and Joe Murphy, "Kurzweil VOICE(tm): Speech recognition for hands-free computing," In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 226-229, 1993. David V. Pynadath, Hong Z. Tan, and David M. Horowitz, "A study of the information capacity of human eye movement for augmentative communication," In Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America, Las Vegas, NV, pp. 96-98, 1993. Hong Z. Tan, "Preliminary Design Specifications for Haptic Interfaces." Image Special Interest Group Symposia: Perception and Human Factors, June 22-24, Tucson, AZ, 1993. (Oral presentation only.) Showna Chang, Hong Z. Tan, Brian Eberman, and Beth Marcus, "Sensing, perception, and feedback for VR," In Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Systems Fall 1993 Conference, Oct. 18-21, New York, NY, 1993. Gerald L. Beauregard, William M. Rabinowitz, Hong Z. Tan, and Nathaniel I. Durlach, "Amplitude (and frequency) resolution for motional stimulation." In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tactile Aids, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants, May 2-5, Miami, FL, pp. 20, 1994. (Abstract only) Hong Z. Tan and Nathaniel I. Durlach, "A study of the tactual perception of motor input sequences." In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tactile Aids, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants, May 2-5, Miami, FL, pp. 23, 1994. (Abstract only) Hong Z. Tan, Nathaniel I. Durlach, William M. Rabinowitz, and Charlotte M. Reed, "Tactual performance with motional stimulation of the index finger," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 95, No. 5, Pt. 2, pp. 2986-2987, 1994.   Abstract (371KB) Hong Z. Tan, Nathaniel I. Durlach, William M. Rabinowitz, and Charlotte M. Reed, "Information transmission with a multi-finger tactual display," In Proceedings of International Sensory Aid Conference, May 28-31, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands, p. 15, 1996. Hong Z. Tan and William M. Rabinowitz, "A new multi-finger tactual display," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 99, No. 4, Pt. 2, pp. 2477, 1996.   Abstract (174KB) Hong Z. Tan, Nathaniel I. Durlach, William M. Rabinowitz, and Charlotte M. Reed, "Information transmission with a multi-finger tactual stimulator," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 99, No. 4, Pt. 2, pp. 2477, 1996.   Abstract (174KB) Hong Z. Tan, Ifung Lu, and Alex Pentland, "The chair as a novel haptic user interface," In Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, Oct. 19-21, Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 56-57, 1997. Hong Z. Tan, Natasha F. Wan, and Charlotte M. Reed, "Masking and temporal integration with a multi-finger tactual display." In Proceedings of the International Sensory Aids Conference, May 11-13, Portland, ME, pp. 45-46, 1998. (Extended abstract.) Seungmoon Choi and Hong Z. Tan, "A parameter space for perceptually stable haptic texture rendering," In Proceedings of the Fifth PHANToM Users Group Workshop (PUG2000), J. K. Salisbury and M. A. Srinivasan (Eds.), Oct. 28-30, Aspen, CO, 4 pp., 2000. Robert Gray and Hong Z. Tan, "Dynamic spatial mapping between vision and touch," Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 5, pp. 38, 2000.   Abstract (184KB) Hong Z. Tan, David S. Ebert, Lynne A. Slivovsky, Nikolai Svakhine, and John Leimgruber III, "sensingChair," In SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 12-17, p. 135, 2001.   Abstract (147KB) Charlotte M. Reed, Lorraine A. Delhorne, Andy Brughera, Nat Durlach, Hong Z. Tan and A. Wong, "Information-transfer rates for sequences of multidimensional tactual signals," presented at The 7th International Sensory Aids Conference, Portland, ME, May 8, 2003. (Abstract only.) Rob Gray and Hong Tan, "Combination of visual and tactile information about moving objects," Fall Vision Meeting, Tucson, AZ, 2003. (Abstract only.) Antonija Mrsic, Rupert Hölzl, Dieter Kleinböhl, Annette M. Stolle, and Hong Z. Tan, "Sensory saltation on the abdomen," Proceedings of the 7th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004),H. H. Bülthoff, H. A. Mallot, R. D. Ulrich, and F. A. Wichmann (Eds.), Kirchentellinsfurt: Knirsch Verlag (ISBN 3-927091-68-5). Tübingen, Germany, p. 110, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2004. (Abstract only.) Laron Walker, Hong Z. Tan, Sorabh Mahadoo, Stephen Brown, and Ron Reifenberger, "A scanning probe nanomanipulator," Proceedings of the Workshop on Scanning Probe Microscopy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Feb. 9, 2004. (Abstract only.) Federico Barbagli, Cristy Ho, Charles Spence, Hong Z. Tan, and Kenneth Salisbury, "Force-direction discrimination: Effect of the congruency of visual information," peer reviewed poster, presented at The 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   Poster (409KB) Enkhtuvshin Dorigotov, Seungmoon Choi, Laura Arns, Raj Arangarasan, Steven R. Dunlop, Gary R. Bertoline, and Hong Z. Tan, "Purdue portable haptic display for large immersive virtual environments," peer reviewed poster, presented at The 2005 World Haptics Conference (WHC05): The First Joint EuroHaptics Conference and the Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Pisa, Italy, Mar. 18-20, 2005.   Poster (1845KB) Cristy Ho, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "Investigating the crossmodal spatial cuing of driving attention," poster presented at The 6th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF05), Rovereto, Italy, June 5-9, 2005.   Poster (96KB) Alberto Gallace, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "Unimodal and bimodal numerosity judgments," poster presented at The 6th Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF05), Rovereto, Italy, June 5-9, 2005.   Poster (132KB) Robert W. Proctor, Hong Z. Tan, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Rob Gray, and Charles Spence, "Implications of compatibility and cuing effects for multimodal interfaces," In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Vol. 11 - Foundations of Augmented Cognition), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-27, 2005.   PDF (232KB) Cristy Ho, Charles Spence, and Hong Z. Tan, "Warning signals go multisensory," In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Vol. 9 - Advances in Virtual Environments Technology: Musings on Design, Evaluation, & Applications), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 22-27, 2005.   PDF (175KB) Cristy Ho, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "Capturing driver attention," Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 10, p. 14, 2005.   Abstract (129KB) Alberto Gallace, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "Change blindness as a multisensory phenomenon: Evidence from tactile change detection," Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 10, p. 89, 2005.   Abstract (136KB) Charlotte M. Reed, Nathaniel I. Durlach, and Hong Z. Tan, "Optimizing information-transfer rates for human communication," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 119, p. 3237, 2006.   Abstract (100KB) Hong Z. Tan and Rob Gray, "The cross-modal spotlight of attention," Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 11, p. 14, November 2006.   Abstract (206KB) Chanon M. Jones, J. Jay Young, Rob Gray, Charles Spence, and Hong Z. Tan, "An eyetracker study of the haptic cuing of visual attention," peer reviewed extended abstract, Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 557-558, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF Christopher Sewell, Nikolas H. Blevins, Sumanth Peddamatham, Hong Z. Tan, Dan Morris, and Kenneth Salisbury, "The effect of virtual haptic training on real surgical drilling proficiency," peer reviewed extended abstract, Proceedings of the 2007 World Haptics Conference (WHC07): The Second Joint EuroHaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, Japan, pp. 601-603, Mar. 22-24, 2007.   PDF Alberto Gallace, Hong Z. Tan, Patrick Haggard, and Charles Spence, "Transient short term representations of tactile stimuli contain more information than can be reported explicitly: Evidence from the partial report paradigm," poster presented at the 2007 Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, PS2:31, July 4-7, 2007. (Abstract only.)   PDF Alberto Gallace, Malika Auvray, Jessica Hartcher-O'Brien, Hong Z. Tan, and Charles Spence, "The effect of visual, auditory, and tactile distractors on people's awareness of tactile change," Body Representation Workshop, Rovereto, Italy, Oct. 8-10, 2007.   PDF Steven A. Cholewiak and Hong Z. Tan, "Haptic stiffness identification and information transfer," Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, Vol. 12, p. 83 (no.2101), 2007.   PDF Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Magazine Article Hong Z. Tan, "Haptic Interfaces," Communications of the ACM (with a special section on Perceptual User Interfaces), Vol. 43, pp. 40-41, 2000.   PDF (147KB) Hong Z. Tan, "The Technical Committee on Haptics," IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, p. 16, March 2008.   PDF (147KB) Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Book Chapters Hong Z. Tan and Alex Pentland, "Tactual Displays for Sensory Substitution and Wearable Computers," In Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality, edited by Woodrow Barfield and Thomas Caudell, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 579-598 (Chap. 18), 2001.   PDF (1939KB) Hong Z. Tan, Alex Pentland, and Lynne A. Slivovsky, "Sensing Chair and Floor Using Distributed Contact Sensors," In Sensors in Intelligent Buildings, edited by O. Gassmann and H. Meixner, Weinheim, Germany: WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, pp. 293-304 (Chap. 3.4), 2001.   PDF (1060KB) Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Technical Reports Hong Z. Tan, Mandayam A. Srinivasan, Belinda Cheng, & Brian Eberman, "Psychophysical experiments for the SAFiRE(tm) and EAM(tm) projects," Feb., 1993. Internal confidential report of EXOS Inc. to NASA sponsors, 42 pp. Lynne A. Slivovsky and Hong Z. Tan, "A real-time sitting posture tracking system," Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical Report No. TR-ECE 00-1, Jan. 2000, 82 pp. Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Refereed Interactive Exhibition Hong Z. Tan, David S. Ebert, XiaoDong Li, Lynne A. Slivovsky, Nikolai Svakhine, and John Leimgruber III, "sensingChair," Emerging Technologies, SIGGRAPH2001, Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 12-17, 2001. (One of 23 juried interactive exhibitions showcasing the most promising technological inventions.) Back to top of Hong Tan's publication Back to Hong Tan's homepage Last modified: Friday, 05-Jun-09 14:51:01 EDT