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The University of Southampton
Engineering

Manipulating Sound to create Mid-air Displays and Haptics Seminar

Time:
16:00
Date:
4 October 2016
Venue:
13/3017

Event details

Institute of Sound and Vibration research

One of the visions on my research is to deliver visual and tactile experiences to users without instrumenting them with wearable or head-mounted displays. My team has been exploring various technical solutions to create displays that use air as the diffuser surface to project visual content and haptic systems that use ultrasound to create tactile feedback. In particular, we have been exploring ways to manipulate ultrasound waves to create tactile focal points that can be felt as well as acoustic-traps that can levitate objects. I will present some of our recent projects on this topic and conclude with UltraHaptics our spin-out company aiming to commercialise the mid-air haptic system.

Speaker information

Sri Subramanian, University of Sussex. Professor Sriram Subramanian, School of Engineering & Informatics, University of Sussex, UK.. Sriram Subramanian is a Professor of Informatics at the University of Sussex where he leads a research group on novel interactive systems. Before joining Sussex, he was a Professor of Human-computer Interaction at the University of Bristol and prior to this a senior scientist at Philips Research Netherlands. He holds an ERC Starting Grant and has received funding from the EU FET-open call. In 2014 he was one of 30 young scientists invited by the WEF to attend their Summer Davos. Subramanian is also the co-founder of Ultrahaptics a spin-out company that aims to commercialise the mid-air haptics enabled by his ERC grant. Ultrahaptics recently raised £10 million to further exploit the commercial potential of the technology. Subramanian's research has been featured in several news media outlets around the world including CNN, BBC and Fox-News.

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