Haptic Playground: Empowering Inclusive Haptic Design for Everyone

While haptic technology is rapidly maturing, training for haptics is in its infancy. Disciplinary siloing has contributed to fast but fragmented growth of the haptics industry; graduate courses mainly exist for individual STEM fields, such as device development for mechanical engineers or study design for psychologists. Despite increasing broad interest to use haptics, many potential researchers and practitioners face barriers to learning how to design and study haptics, especially when their background is outside of STEM fields.