The new IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics had its first committee meeting in March 2007, and began discussions around a new journal.  The meeting minutes detail the proposal.

The scope statement says:

The proposed journal, to be called Transactions on Haptics, will address the science, technology and applications associated with information acquisition and object manipulation through touch. Haptic interactions relevant to this journal include all aspects of manual exploration and manipulation by humans, machines, and interactions between the two, performed in real, virtual, teleoperated, or networked environments.

Once they get the planning phases completed, they intend to launch sometime in 2008 with 4 issues / year.

During our startup phase, we propose to do several thematic issues, each with an invited paper from a key researcher, both to underscore our scope and encourage submissions – e.g.

• Advances in perception
• Haptic interface design and control
• Software rendering for haptic and multimodal interactions
• Applications and haptic interaction design
• Rehabilitation, Medicine, Neuroscience…

For more information:  http://www.worldhaptics.org/index.htm

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