About This Lesson
Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania with support from NSF, is working on capturing how an object feels and realistically recreating those sensations so that you can feel a virtual version of the object through computers and other devices. She calls this process haptography or haptic (touch) photography, and it has many applications from medical simulation and training to online shopping.
