This document discusses the history and development of haptics technology in telepresence and virtual reality systems. It begins with definitions of key terms like teleoperation, telepresence, and virtual presence. It then outlines some of the major categories and applications of haptics research, including gaming, nuclear safety, space exploration, and academia. Several pioneering haptics projects are highlighted from the 1950s onward. The document also discusses how haptics and other biofeedback technologies represent a change in the relationship between humans and technology, according to post-phenomenological scholars. Different models of human-technology relations are outlined, and how new technologies may require rethinking these relationships. In the end, the document suggests future topics related

1. Human-Technology Relations:
(Haptics Flavored)

2. History of Haptics in Telesenation Systems
• Teleoperation =
• How to operate something physical from a distance (time or space)
• = TelePresence
• How to exist in a virtual space as if it were the real one
• = Virtual Presence
• Collectively: Telepresence & Virtual
Presence = Telesensation Systems
• Entire premise is based on bio-sensory
haptic feedback

3. Teleoperation Research Categories
• Government
• Exploration
• Space
• Terrestrial
• Security
• Weapons
Transport
• Training
• #allthethings
• Industry
• Exploration
• Oil/Gas/Nuclear
• Entertainment
• Gaming
• Tourism
• Academia
• Exploration
• Base research for
govt/industry
• Robotics Primes
• Base research for
govt/industry

4. Gaming Haptics for Teleoperation
• 1976- Sega Moto-Cross/Fonz
• 1983- Atari TX-1
• 1989- Earthshaker!
• 1997 – N64 Nintendo Rumble Pak
• 2007- ForceWear Vest
• Now—Full Suits & Immersive Platforms
(Virtual Presence)

5. Nuclear Safety
Bilateral Master Slave Manipulators (MSMs)
(Telepresence)
(1950s +)

6. Most Cited Early Project = NASA Virtual Environment Workstation (VIEW)
(Virtual Presence AND Telepresence)
(1950s+ unclassified, likely WWII)

7. Subsequent Historic Haptics Projects of Note
• GROPE (1967!!! at UNC Chapel Hill)
• & The Rise of Servomaniuplators (servos)
• Teleact/TactGlove
• Your Smart Phone
• Exoskeletons
• Touchless Haptics (air, ultrasound)
• VR Swordfighting Suits

8. Exponential
Research
Growth

9. Exterior Objects & Exoskeletons

10. Changing dynamics : Outside to Inside
• Embedded bio/haptic technologies = reconsideration of tech-human
engagement by post-phenomological scholars

11. = a change in how we perceive the
technology, the world, and ourselves…
(i.e. our “Human Technology Relation”)

12. Technology as a Medium of Perception
Two primary forms of “Mediation”
• MicroPerception
• Our Biological Senses
= the Human Perception of the World
= “Phenomenology”
• MacroPerception
• Our senses mediated through technology
• =Technology isn’t part of the world, it’s the
media we use to interpret the world
• = “Post-Phenomenology”
Haptics/BioFeedback & many of the other
technologies Tanzle plays with =Mash ups
vs.

13. Idhe’s Original Human-Technology Relations
• Embodiment Relations
(human – technology)  world
(we look through a lens: glasses, microscopes, we speak through a phone)

14. • Hermeneutic Relations
human (technology – world)
(ex. We read thermometers, Xrays, or radar)
Idhe’s Original Human-Technology Relations

15. • Alterity Relations
Human  technology (world)
(ex. We engage with a machine/robot and acknowledge the “otherness” or ‘alterity’ of
the machine like an ATM or laptop---it has it’s own world that we don’t have to pursue
to use it (unless we want to))
Idhe’s Original Human-Technology Relations

16. • Background Relations
human (technology/world)
• (we don’t notice our interaction with technology because it’s part of our
context, ex. machine hums or the presence of a machine is a given (like
refrigerators in kitchens))
Idhe’s Original Human-Technology Relations

17. • Fusion Relation
(I/Technology)  World
(where tech merges with physical body, ex. Pacemakers, Cyborg
‘somatechnologies’)
Verbeeks’s Revised Human-Technology Relations

18. • Immersion Relation
I  Technology/World
(humans experience how technology experiences them, ex. Aging & Change
simulation software)
Verbeeks’s Revised Human-Technology Relations

19. • Augmentation Relation
(I - Technology)  World  (Technology – World)
( ex. Any Augmented Reality (visible or info-wise) = world I see/know as expanded,
would be less/invisible without the technology---can’t go back, world without google,
less info once you’re used to more diminishes the world. Once you pop, you can’t
stop. )
Verbeeks’s Revised Human-Technology Relations

20. • Embedding new mechanisms for perception in technology-----
changes how we perceive things x 2
• Designing Technology = Designing Humanity

21. Philosophers of Technology Mediation &
Human Technology Relations
• Martin Heidegger
•Don Ihde
• Karl Jasper
• Bruno Latour
• Albert Borgmann
•Peter VerBeek
• James Pierce

22. Future Presentation Options

23. 3D Data Capture:
Past, Present, & Projected Future of Ubiquitous
3D Sensing

24. Secure Multimedia Espistemologies

25. Building Information Modelling (BIM):
Expanding Methodologies & Data Integration
Possibilities

26. Differential Cultural Phenomenologies of
Space & Time Visualization

27. The Current State of Situational
Awareness Software & C4ISR Systems
Command, Control,
Communications,
Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance and
Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR
outside US)