IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - October 2015 - 51

IEEE TransacTIons on HapTIcs
At the heart of consumer electronics
OEMs and service providers is offering
end users an entertaining and immersive
experience. Due to costs and the limitations of technology, for most of CE history we have been limited to just visual and
auditory sensory stimulation. By employing haptics, we have the ability to add
touch to the senses that we can stimulate.
The use of simple tactile feedback
has been employed and valued for some
time in improving the user experience in
using keyboards and keypads, but
today's state-of-the-art haptics can add
excitement to playing games and a new
dimension to action movies employing
butt kickers and vibration generators.
Beyond enriching entertainment experiences, haptics has multiple nonentertainment applications potential. Aircraft
designs have employed so-called stick
shakers to alert eyes-busy pilots to
impending dangerous stalls. Extending
this to the CE world, we can add haptics
warnings to, for example, the steering
wheels of our cars and alarm clocks.
Haptics as an output technology can
enable CE and information technology
devices for the blind and other abilitychallenged consumers. In the medical
field, haptics is already being employed
to provide doctors with tactile feedback
in performing robotic surgery. Relating
this technology to CE products and services, we can imagine applications where
fine robotic-like control is needed, such
as in using a joystick to navigate a device
or flying a consumer drone. Already on
the market are next-generation game consoles that simulate engagement in sporting activities such as golf, baseball, and
tennis. By adding haptics, we can further
enhance the value of these simulations as
training aids.
IEEE Transactions on Haptics
addresses science, technology, and applications associated with information
acquisition and object manipulation
through touch. Haptics is an interdisciplinary science that concerns CE as well
as robotics, teleoperation, and telemedicine. Haptic interactions relevant to this
journal include all aspects of manual
exploration and manipulation by humans,
machines, and interactions between the

two, performed in real, virtual, teleoperated, or networked environments.
IEEE Transactions on Haptics is
published quarterly, with one issue on a
special topic area. The journal is financially cosponsored by the IEEE CE
Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation
Society, and IEEE Computer Society
and is also technically cosponsored by
the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society. More information is
available at http://cesoc.ieee.org/
transhaptics.html.

IEEE BIomETrIcs compEndIum
Throughout the history of man-machine
interface, we have required that the end

The common aspect of
each of these affiliated
publications is that they
represent developing
foundation technologies
that are of increasing
interest to our members
who design CE products,
services, and technology.
user adapt to the limitations of machines
by dealing with the inability of the
machine to understand natural man-toman communications. Historically, we
have learned to type on keyboards, push
buttons, activate levers, read displays, and
employ other means to interact with our
machines. The potential offered by biometrics is to enable man-machine interactions that approach man-to-man
interactions. Beyond the user-interface
aspect of man-to-man interactions, biometrics also offers the potential of
enabling man-to-man identification and
recognition. With the increasing need to
secure and verify cyberspace transactions
and activities, biometrics offers a solution
for validation of the end user's identity by
means such as speaker recognition, face
recognition, fingerprints, hand geometry,
retinal eye patterns, and other innate
unique human characteristics.
Biometric technology is at an early
stage of deployment in CE products and

services, but by making CE easier to
use, more enjoyable, and more secure,
biometrics offers clever CE stakeholders
an opportunity to differentiate and make
their market offerings more attractive
and successful.
IEEE Biometrics Compendium, a
quarterly IEEE virtual journal, is a
collection of previously published
IEEE papers in specific scientific and
technical disciplines, paired with value-added commentary from technology experts. It was created by the IEEE
Biometrics Council and is the first virtual journal published by the IEEE.
IEEE Biometrics Compendium
addresses the theory, design, and application of biometric characterization of
human beings, based on physiological
and/or behavioral features and traits, in
particular for identification, identity verification, authentication, cancelable/
revocable biometrics, recognition and
privacy considerations, and social
impact and medical diagnosis. The
broad spectrum of applications of biometrics is reflected by the equally broad
spectrum of the fields of interest of
sponsoring IEEE Societies:
▼ aerospace and electronic systems
▼ circuits and systems
▼ communications
▼ computational intelligence
▼ computer
▼ consumer electronics
▼ engineering in medicine and biology
▼ instrumentation and measurement
▼ intelligent transportation systems
▼ photonics
▼ robotics and automation
▼ signal processing
▼ solid-state circuits
▼ systems, man, and cybernetics
▼ ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control
▼ vehicular technology.
Subscribers to IEEE Biometrics
Compendium receive full-text PDF
access to all articles referenced from the
current year and past years. For additional details on the compendium, please
visit http://www.ieee.org/publications_
standards/publications/subscriptions/
prod/biometricscompendium.html.

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