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TECHNICAL PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED
2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference
July 6-9 Virtual (previously Montreal)
https://2021.worldhaptics.org
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The submission deadline for technical papers has been extended to February
19, 2021.

We are also aware that conducting studies with human participants has been
difficult or impossible over the past year for many members of the haptics
research community. We therefore want to emphasize that user studies are
not the only possible means of assessing a research contribution and that
they are not strictly required for a technical paper to be acceptable for
publication. We ask authors to consider the many ways in which the validity
of their research contributions can be assessed and the claims made in
their paper can be supported with evidence. For useful suggestions, we
recommend reading the “User Studies are Not Required” section of the author
guide prepared by the organizers of the UIST’21 conference:
https://uist.acm.org/uist2021/author-guide.html.

IEEE World Haptics Conference
The IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC) is the premier international
conference covering various aspects of haptics including scientific
findings, technological developments, and applications. The conference is a
vibrant environment for sharing the most up-to-date research advancements
in the field of haptics, leading to new collaborations, fruitful scientific
discussions, engagement of young researchers, and charting the future role
of haptic technology in enhancing human life.

WHC 2021 will be held as a virtual conference from July 6 to 9, 2021. The
conference will use various virtualization tools to offer an exciting
interactive program, including cross-cutting challenge sessions, technical
papers in oral and poster sessions, work-in-progress sessions,
demonstrations, industrial exhibits, workshops and tutorials, student
innovation challenge and other technical and social activities.

We seek original contributions on all topics in haptics and call for your
active participation.

Important dates
February 19, 2021 (extended): Technical paper submission
February 26, 2021: SIC submission
Late March, 2021: IEEE ToH short paper final acceptance notification
April 16, 2021: Technical paper acceptance notification
April 23, 2021: WIP and Demo submission
May 14, 2021: Camera-ready paper submission
July 6-9, 2021: Conference (Virtual)

Mailing List
If you would like to receive announcements relating to the 2021 World
Haptics Conference, please follow the directions posted here:
https://2021.worldhaptics.org/mailinglist.

General Chairs ([log in to unmask])
Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad, Queen’s University, Canada
Vincent Levesque, École de technologie supérieure, Canada

Conference Editorial Board ([log in to unmask])
Jee-Hwan Ryu (Chair), KAIST, Korea
Fernando Bello, Imperial College London, UK
Marcia O’Malley, Rice University, USA
Seungmoon Choi, POSTECH, Korea

Program Chair ([log in to unmask])
Astrid Kappers, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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