August 17, 2024
- Premankur’s work in collaboration with researchers from USC’s Department of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy on using VR surfing as therapy for chronic pain patients was featured on KTLA.
June 2024
- Premankur’s work on creating a realistic VR surfing simulator was featured in a Viterbi Magazine article.
April 26, 2024
- Dr. Heather Culbertson received the Ershaghi Faculty Mentorship Award at @USCViterbi Faculty and Staff Annual Award Ceremony.
February 1, 2024
- Yang’s research on the use of drones to create touch interactions in collaboration with Shahram Ghandeharizadeh was featured in an article on the Viterbi website.
July 13, 2023
- Dr. Culbertson gave an interview on our lab’s work on social touch for ROBOTIS Talks.
July 13, 2023
- Shihan’s paper “Preference-Driven Texture Modeling Through Interactive Generation and Search” was selected as one of two finalists of IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) Best Paper Award in 2022.
July 12, 2023
- Dr. Culbertson was featured in a profile on CBS LA. STEAM: Haptician uses technology to decode physical feedback
June 30, 2023
- Welcome all students joining our lab for 2023 summer research.
March 9, 2023
- Culbertson’s newly funded research in collaboration with Jason Kutch and James Finley was featured on the USC website. Scientists Probe How Surfing Could Help Chronic Pain
April 15, 2023
- HaRVI lab hosted another Robotics Open House with Viterbi School of Engineering for local high school students.Â
January 22, 2023
- HaRVI lab volunteered to teach robotics basics for local students through the Peace4Kids organization on weekends.
January 2, 2023
- Shihan’s research on haptic texture modeling has been featured in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in a special report titled “Signal Processing Comes to the Senses: Signal processing is making an impact in taste, sentiment, and touch research“.
May 20, 2022
- Shihan’s research on preference-driven texture modeling has been featured in a great article by Viterbi Press.
Haptics Device Creates Realistic Virtual Textures
December 17, 2021
- Our joint research on social touch with Stanford University was featured in articles by Stanford Engineering and Viterbi.
Machine Communicates Emotion with Nearly 80% Accuracy of Human Touch
May 13, 2021
- Undergrad Alex Atcheson’s research on tactile coding was featured in an article on the Viterbi website. Congrats Alex!
Computer Science Senior Creates Tech to Help Students with Visual Impairments Learn to Code
May 11, 2021
- Dr. Culbertson was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to continue our work on social touch.
Five USC Viterbi Faculty Receive 2021 NSF CAREER Awards
April 6, 2021
- The Viterbi Magazine put together a comic on Dr. Culbertson and the HaRVI Lab. Check it out!
Virtual Touch in a Time of Isolation
April 5, 2021
- Our lab put together a video description of our lab’s research for the Robotics Open House. Check it out here.
June 24, 2020
- Dr. Culbertson was a talk titled “Haptics for Communication is a Socially Distanced World ” for the Viterbi Live virtual seminar series. Check it out here.
June 15, 2020
- Our lab’s research was featured in the Viterbi Magazine! – The Future at Your Fingertips
The Future at Your Fingertips
June 2020
- We have several students joining us virtually this summer. Carlos Souffrain and Chris Slaughter are joining us from UMBC as part of the REU program. Kevin Figueroa and Yawen Liu are joining us as part of the Viterbi Summer Research Program. Jesse Chen is a high school student joining us as part of the SHINE program. Welcome everyone!
June 1, 2020
- Yang Chen has joined our lab as our sixth PhD student. Welcome Yang!
May 20, 2020
- Check out our lab’s virtual talks for Haptics Symposium on Youtube!
February 17, 2020
- Dr. Culbertson was featured in a Robohub podcast episode. Our own Shihan Lu conducted the interview.
Haptics and Virtual Interactions
November 2019
- Catherine Yunis has joined our lab as our fifth PhD and first BME student. She is co-advised by Dr. James Finley. Welcome Catherine!
September 27, 2019
- Our lab submitted three papers to the new joint IEEE Transactions on Haptics-Haptics Symposium submission category. Fingers crossed!
September 14, 2019
- Alex Atcheson and Kivilcim Cumbul have been awarded Fall 2019 Provost’s Fellowships to conduct research in our lab. Congrats!
August 2, 2019
- Sandeep Kollannur has joined our lab as our fourth PhD student. Welcome Sandeep!
July 17, 2019
- USC (and our lab) played host to the 3rd Annual Summer School on Cognitive Robotics. Thanks everyone for all your help!
July 9, 2019
- Dr. C, Jerry, and David attended the World Haptics Conference in Tokyo and presented our two papers and extended abstract.
June 1, 2019
- Xin Zhu has officially transitioned from MS student to PhD student in the lab. We’re happy he’s decided to stay!
April 24, 2019
- Kivilcim Cumbul has been awarded a WiSE Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct research in our lab over the summer. Congrats!
April 10, 2019
- Our lab participated in USC’s Robotics Open House and presented haptics demos to an army of local K-12 students.
April 5, 2019
- Our lab’s first two papers were accepted for publication at World Haptics Conference. Congrats Naghmeh and Jerry!
March 1, 2019
- Dr. Culbertson was quoted in a Wired.com article published discussing the use of haptics for teleoperation (How I Became a Robot in London From 5,000 Miles Away).
February 5, 2019
- An article was published on ANA Travel Unlimited website quoting Prof. Culbertson and discussing research being done in HaRVI Lab (The 5 Biggest Tech Challenges to Building a Commercial Avatar).
https://www.anatravelunlimited.com/the-5-biggest-tech-challenges-to-building-a-commercial-avatar/
December 20, 2018
- An article was published in Knowable Magazine quoting Prof. Culbertson and discussing research being done in HaRVI Lab (Reaching Out to Touch Virtual Reality).
September 2, 2018
- An article was published on Venture Beat focusing on research conducted in HaRVI Lab (Haptic Armband Lets You Feel the Sensation of Stroking in VR).
https://venturebeat.com/2018/09/02/haptic-armband-lets-you-feel-the-sensation-of-stroking-in-vr/
August 20, 2018
- Shihan Lu has joined our lab as our second PhD student. Welcome Shihan!
July 20, 2018
- Dr. Culbertson gave a talk at the ISI AI seminar titled “Haptics for Virtual Communication” Check out the video here!
June 20, 2018
- Our research on social haptics was featured in an article on the Viterbi website.
USC Computer Science Professor Develops Haptic Armband to Mimic Human Touch
June 1, 2018
- Naghmeh Zamani has joined the lab as our first PhD student. Welcome Naghmeh!
May 24, 2018
- Dr. Culbertson gave an interview about providing robots with more senses than just vision and was quoted in an article for WIRED titled “Give the Robots Electronic Tongues”.
May 4, 2018
- Dr. Culbertson has received a courtesy appointment from the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department. She can not advise both CSCI and AME PhD students.
April 28, 2018
- Dr. Culbertson spoke on a panel and gave a hands-on demonstration of our technology at a panel on Haptics in Automobiles at the Peterson Automobile Museum.
April 3, 2018
- HaRVI Lab has officially moved into our permanent lab space in RTH 416!
March 19, 2018
- Renovations have started on our new lab space.
January 8, 2018
- Dr. Culbertson joined the Department of Computer Science at USC.
Dr. Culbertson’s research has previously been featured in a New Yorker Article on the sense of touch titled “Feel me: what the new science of touch says about ourselves“.