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July 13, 2023

June 30, 2023

  • Welcome all students joining our lab for 2023 summer research.

April 15, 2023

  • HaRVI lab hosted another Robotics Open House with Viterbi School of Engineering for local high school students. 

January 22, 2023

  • HaRVI lab volunteered to teach robotics basics for local students through the Peace4Kids organization on weekends.

January 2, 2023

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

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

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

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

February 5, 2019

https://www.anatravelunlimited.com/the-5-biggest-tech-challenges-to-building-a-commercial-avatar/

December 20, 2018

September 2, 2018

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

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“.

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