A compact, hands-on workshop for students, academic researchers, industrial experts and decision-makers who want to move beyond actuator specifications and create haptic experiences that feel credible, useful and market-ready.
The workshop connects perception science, engineering practice, product industrialization, gaming, XR, accessibility and interactive art. Participants learn why haptic quality often decides whether a product is accepted or rejected — and how systematic design, evaluation and multimodal coherence can reduce development risk.
The session follows a progressive arc: from mechanical control feel to material perception, multimodal integration, active vibrotactile feedback, accessible art and performance-driven gaming haptics.
Newly updated schedule for the half-day Haptic Design workshop.
Links: Workshop page · Program overview
| Time | Topic | Speaker | Institution / Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | Introduction and Workshop Overview | ||
| 09:05 | Haptic Design for Passive, Mechanical Controls– An Intuitive Way to Design Passive Haptics | J. Reisinger | reisinger engineering GmbH |
| 09:35 | Affective and Discriminative Aspectsof Material Perception and Haptic Design | K. Drewing | JLU Giessen |
| 10:05 | Multimodal Haptic Design | G. Gioioso | WEART |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:45 | Haptics in Interactive + Accessible Art + Experience Design | K. Kirkland | The H9 Co. |
| 11:15 | Performance-Driven Gaming Haptics Design | E. Vezzoli | Razer |
| 11:45 | Cross-Domain Discussion:Shared Principles and Open Challenges | All Speakers | |
| 11:55 | Wrap-Up, Conclusions, and Closing Remarks | ||
| 12:00 | End of Workshop |
Five complementary perspectives from automotive, psychology, XR, interactive art, accessibility and gaming show how haptic design becomes usable, testable and commercially relevant.
Performance-Driven Gaming Haptics Design
Technology leader at Razer for AI, Haptics, Chroma and Spatial Audio. Founder of Interhaptics, contributor to MPEG and OpenXR haptics standards, and Haptics Industry Forum board member.
What he will report: How gaming haptics must perform under real-time constraints, how standards and ecosystems shape delivery, and how high-performance feedback can scale across devices and content.
Multimodal Haptic Design
Expert in immersive multimodal interaction and haptic wearables, bringing a technology-driven XR and real-world application perspective.
What he will report: How haptic wearables and multimodal systems combine touch with visual, spatial and interaction cues to create more convincing immersive experiences.
Haptic Design for Passive, Mechanical Controls — An Intuitive Way to Design Haptics
Former Mercedes-Benz haptics expert with almost 18 years of series development experience. His work connects scientific haptic design, measurement methodology and industrial product quality.
What he will report: How passive controls can be haptically designed in a systematic and intuitive way, why mechanical credibility matters, and how automotive haptic quality can be translated from research into robust development processes.
The Empathy of Illusion: Translating Visual Art into Multimodal Haptic Experiences
Mechanical engineer, industrial designer, founder of The H9 Co. and co-inventor of Wayband. His work spans accessibility, interactive art and haptic experience design.
What he will report: How tactile art for visually impaired museum patrons turns “look, but don’t touch” into an inclusive multimodal experience — including hands-on exploration of a museum artifact and a live rap performance connecting rhythm, audio and storytelling to haptic culture.
Affective and Discriminative Aspects of Material Perception and Haptic Design
Professor of psychology and leader of HapLab Giessen. His research focuses on haptic perception, multisensory integration and time perception.
What he will report: How people perceive and emotionally evaluate materials, and what haptic designers can learn from psychophysics when designing believable textures and surfaces.
Registration via the official EuroHaptics 2026 platform:
EHC2026 Registration