Katherine Kuchenbecker
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Mechanical engineer; works on incorporating the sense of touch directly into virtual objects
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Katherine Kuchenbecker's Degrees
- PhD Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
- Masters Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
- Bachelors Mechanical Engineering Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Katherine Julianne Kuchenbecker is an American researcher in haptic technology and robot-assisted surgery, and a former high school and college volleyball player. She is director of the Haptic Intelligence department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany.
Katherine Kuchenbecker's Published Works
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Published Works
- Human-Inspired Robotic Grasp Control With Tactile Sensing (2011) (367)
- Improving contact realism through event-based haptic feedback (2006) (335)
- Vibrotactile Display: Perception, Technology, and Applications (2013) (306)
- Deep learning for tactile understanding from visual and haptic data (2015) (208)
- Creating Realistic Virtual Textures from Contact Acceleration Data (2012) (183)
- Cutaneous Feedback of Fingertip Deformation and Vibration for Palpation in Robotic Surgery (2016) (154)
- Tool Contact Acceleration Feedback for Telerobotic Surgery (2011) (145)
- Modeling and Rendering Realistic Textures from Unconstrained Tool-Surface Interactions (2014) (125)
- Using robotic exploratory procedures to learn the meaning of haptic adjectives (2013) (109)
- Robotic learning of haptic adjectives through physical interaction (2015) (104)
- Contact Location Display for Haptic Perception of Curvature and Object Motion (2005) (98)
- Dimensional Reduction of High-Frequency Accelerations for Haptic Rendering (2010) (98)
- Evaluation of Tactile Feedback Methods for Wrist Rotation Guidance (2012) (97)
- Characterizing the Human Wrist for Improved Haptic Interaction (2003) (89)
- Effects of Vibrotactile Feedback on Human Learning of Arm Motions (2015) (89)
- HALO: Haptic Alerts for Low-hanging Obstacles in white cane navigation (2012) (84)
- Surgeons and non-surgeons prefer haptic feedback of instrument vibrations during robotic surgery (2015) (83)
- One hundred data-driven haptic texture models and open-source methods for rendering on 3D objects (2014) (83)
- Importance of Matching Physical Friction, Hardness, and Texture in Creating Realistic Haptic Virtual Surfaces (2017) (81)
- VerroTouch: High-Frequency Acceleration Feedback for Telerobotic Surgery (2010) (80)
- Spatially distributed tactile feedback for kinesthetic motion guidance (2010) (77)
- A high fidelity ungrounded torque feedback device: The iTorqU 2.0 (2009) (72)
- Identifying the role of proprioception in upper-limb prosthesis control: Studies on targeted motion (2010) (70)
- High frequency acceleration feedback significantly increases the realism of haptically rendered textured surfaces (2010) (68)
- Event-based haptics and acceleration matching: portraying and assessing the realism of contact (2005) (68)
- The Touch Thimble: Providing Fingertip Contact Feedback During Point-Force Haptic Interaction (2008) (62)
- Generating haptic texture models from unconstrained tool-surface interactions (2013) (61)
- Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs (2018) (60)
- In vivo validation of a system for haptic feedback of tool vibrations in robotic surgery (2013) (55)
- Immersive Low-Cost Virtual Reality Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain: Evidence from Two Cases (2018) (55)
- Automatic filter design for synthesis of haptic textures from recorded acceleration data (2010) (54)
- Haptography: Capturing and Recreating the Rich Feel of Real Surfaces (2009) (53)
- Effects of Grip-Force, Contact, and Acceleration Feedback on a Teleoperated Pick-and-Place Task (2017) (53)
- Lessons in using vibrotactile feedback to guide fast arm motions (2011) (51)
- Induced Master Motion in Force-Reflecting Teleoperation (2006) (50)
- Refined methods for creating realistic haptic virtual textures from tool-mediated contact acceleration data (2012) (47)
- Stiffness discrimination with visual and proprioceptive cues (2009) (46)
- The design and field observation of a haptic notification system for timing awareness during oral presentations (2013) (43)
- Methods for robotic tool-mediated haptic surface recognition (2014) (42)
- Vibrotactile feedback system for intuitive upper-limb rehabilitation (2009) (42)
- Using Contact Forces and Robot Arm Accelerations to Automatically Rate Surgeon Skill at Peg Transfer (2017) (41)
- Ungrounded Haptic Augmented Reality System for Displaying Roughness and Friction (2017) (38)
- Haptic display of contact location (2004) (36)
- Design of body-grounded tactile actuators for playback of human physical contact (2011) (35)
- A soft thumb-sized vision-based sensor with accurate all-round force perception (2021) (34)
- Haptipedia: Accelerating Haptic Device Discovery to Support Interaction & Engineering Design (2019) (33)
- Effects of Visual and Proprioceptive Motion Feedback on Human Control of Targeted Movement (2007) (33)
- A wearable device for controlling a robot gripper with fingertip contact, pressure, vibrotactile, and grip force feedback (2014) (32)
- Haptic display of realistic tool contact via dynamically compensated control of a dedicated actuator (2009) (32)
- Dynamic modeling and control of voice-coil actuators for high-fidelity display of haptic vibrations (2014) (31)
- Toward tactilely transparent gloves: Collocated slip sensing and vibrotactile actuation (2009) (30)
- Displaying Sensed Tactile Cues with a Fingertip Haptic Device (2015) (30)
- Low bitrate source-filter model based compression of vibrotactile texture signals in haptic teleoperation (2012) (29)
- Designing and Assessing Expressive Open-Source Faces for the Baxter Robot (2016) (29)
- Automatically rating trainee skill at a pediatric laparoscopic suturing task (2017) (29)
- Perception of Curvature and Object Motion Via Contact Location Feedback (2003) (28)
- THUMP: an immersive haptic console for surgical simulation and training. (2004) (28)
- Improving telerobotic touch via high-frequency acceleration matching (2006) (27)
- Perception of Springs With Visual and Proprioceptive Motion Cues: Implications for Prosthetics (2013) (26)
- Shaping Event-Based Haptic Transients Via an Improved Understanding of Real Contact Dynamics (2007) (26)
- Proton: A visuo-haptic data acquisition system for robotic learning of surface properties (2016) (25)
- Lack of a discriminatory function for endoscopy skills on a computer-based simulator (2010) (25)
- The AirWand: Design and characterization of a large-workspace haptic device (2009) (24)
- A data-driven method for determining natural human-robot motion mappings in teleoperation (2012) (24)
- Modeling Induced Master Motion in Force-Reflecting Teleoperation (2005) (22)
- A wrist-squeezing force-feedback system for robotic surgery training (2017) (22)
- Event-Based Haptic Tapping with Grip Force Compensation (2006) (21)
- Measurement-Based Modeling for Haptic Rendering (2008) (21)
- Objective assessment of robotic surgical skill using instrument contact vibrations (2016) (21)
- Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction (2020) (20)
- Should haptic texture vibrations respond to user force and speed? (2015) (20)
- Implementation of a 6-DOF Parallel Continuum Manipulator for Delivering Fingertip Tactile Cues (2019) (19)
- Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs (2018) (18)
- Fingertip Interaction Metrics Correlate with Visual and Haptic Perception of Real Surfaces (2019) (18)
- The Penn Haptic Texture Toolkit for Modeling, Rendering, and Evaluating Haptic Virtual Textures (2014) (17)
- Dynamic simulation of tool-mediated texture interaction (2013) (17)
- Calibrating a Soft ERT-Based Tactile Sensor with a Multiphysics Model and Sim-to-real Transfer Learning (2020) (16)
- Data-Driven Motion Mappings Improve Transparency in Teleoperation (2015) (15)
- Data-driven comparison of four cutaneous displays for pinching palpation in robotic surgery (2016) (15)
- Characterizing and controlling the high-frequency dynamics of haptic interfaces (2006) (14)
- Improving Haptic Adjective Recognition with Unsupervised Feature Learning (2019) (14)
- Spectral Subtraction of Robot Motion Noise for Improved Event Detection in Tactile Acceleration Signals (2012) (14)
- Equipping the Baxter robot with human-inspired hand-clapping skills (2016) (14)
- Perception of force and stiffness in the presence of low-frequency haptic noise (2017) (13)
- The Six Hug Commandments: Design and Evaluation of a Human-Sized Hugging Robot with Visual and Haptic Perception (2021) (13)
- Canceling Induced Master Motion in Force-Reflecting Teleoperation (2004) (13)
- How Does It Feel to Clap Hands with a Robot? (2019) (13)
- Control of a high fidelity ungrounded torque feedback device: The iTorqU 2.1 (2010) (13)
- GPU methods for real-time haptic interaction with 3D fluids (2009) (12)
- Virtual Robotization of the Human Body via Data-Driven Vibrotactile Feedback (2013) (12)
- Internal Array Electrodes Improve the Spatial Resolution of Soft Tactile Sensors Based on Electrical Resistance Tomography (2019) (12)
- ROS open-source audio recognizer: ROAR environmental sound detection tools for robot programming (2013) (12)
- Using Accelerometers to Localize Tactile Contact Events on a Robot Arm (2012) (11)
- Jointonation: robotization of the human body by vibrotactile feedback (2013) (10)
- Haptography: capturing the feel of real objects to enable authentic haptic rendering (invited paper) (2008) (10)
- Evaluation of high‐fidelity simulation as a training tool in transoral robotic surgery (2017) (10)
- Effects of Proprioceptive Motion Feedback on Sighted and Non-Sighted Control of a Virtual Hand Prosthesis (2008) (10)
- Adaptive Optimal Measurement Algorithm for ERT-Based Large-Area Tactile Sensors (2022) (9)
- A Data-Driven Approach to Remote Tactile Interaction: From a BioTac Sensor to any Fingertip Cutaneous Device (2014) (9)
- Corrigendum to "Robotic learning of haptic adjectives through physical interaction" [Robot. Auton. Syst. 63 (P3) (2015) 279-292] (2016) (9)
- Objective and Subjective Assessment of Algorithms for Reducing Three-Axis Vibrations to One-Axis Vibrations (2019) (9)
- Haptics and Haptic Interfaces (2018) (8)
- Getting in touch with children with autism: Specialist guidelines for a touch-perceiving robot (2020) (8)
- Evaluation of a Vibrotactile Simulator for Dental Caries Detection (2017) (8)
- Evaluating the BioTac's Ability to Detect and Characterize Lumps in Simulated Tissue (2014) (8)
- Capturing Experts' Mental Models to Organize a Collection of Haptic Devices: Affordances Outweigh Attributes (2020) (7)
- Task-Driven PCA-Based Design Optimization of Wearable Cutaneous Devices (2018) (7)
- Design of a parallel continuum manipulator for 6-DOF fingertip haptic display (2017) (7)
- Displaying realistic contact accelerations via a dedicated vibration actuator (2009) (7)
- Surgical Instrument Vibrations are a Construct-Valid Measure of Technical Skill in Robotic Peg Transfer and Suturing Tasks (2012) (7)
- In the Arms of a Robot: Designing Autonomous Hugging Robots with Intra-Hug Gestures (2022) (7)
- Virtual Reality Treatment Displaying the Missing Leg Improves Phantom Limb Pain: A Small Clinical Trial (2021) (6)
- Construct validity of instrument vibrations as a measure of robotic surgical skill (2012) (6)
- Compensating for Fingertip Size to Render Tactile Cues More Accurately (2020) (6)
- Physical Variables Underlying Tactile Stickiness During Fingerpad Detachment (2020) (6)
- Haptically assisted golf putting through a planar four-cable system (2011) (6)
- Rhythmic Timing in Playful Human-Robot Social Motor Coordination (2016) (6)
- Free and Forced Vibration Modes of the Human Fingertip (2021) (6)
- A GPU-Based Approach for Real-Time Haptic Rendering of 3D Fluids (2008) (6)
- Learning to Predict Perceptual Distributions of Haptic Adjectives (2020) (6)
- Using IMU data to demonstrate hand-clapping games to a robot (2016) (6)
- Recreating the feel of the human chest in a CPR manikin via programmable pneumatic damping (2012) (5)
- Piezoresistive textile layer and distributed electrode structure for soft whole-body tactile skin (2021) (5)
- Haptic robotization of the human body by data-driven vibrotactile feedback (2014) (5)
- A Practice Integrated Undergraduate Curriculum In Mechanical Engineering (2008) (5)
- A practical system for recording instrument interactions during live robotic surgery (2013) (5)
- The Penn Haptic Texture Toolkit (2014) (5)
- Proton 2: Increasing the sensitivity and portability of a visuo-haptic surface interaction recorder (2017) (5)
- Using Contact Forces and Robot Arm Accelerations to Automatically Rate Surgeon Skill at Peg Transfer (2017) (5)
- Handling Scan-time Parameters in Haptic Surface Classification (2017) (5)
- Qualitative User Reactions to a Hand-Clapping Humanoid Robot (2016) (5)
- Teaching a Robot Bimanual Hand-Clapping Games via Wrist-Worn IMUs (2018) (5)
- Design of interactive augmented reality functions for robotic surgery and evaluation in dry‐lab lymphadenectomy (2021) (4)
- Real-Time Graphic and Haptic Simulation of Deformable Tissue Puncture (2008) (4)
- A Design Tool for Therapeutic Social-Physical Human-Robot Interactions (2019) (4)
- Optimizing a Viscoelastic Finite Element Model to Represent the Dry, Natural, and Moist Human Finger Pressing on Glass (2021) (4)
- Stiffness perception during pinching and dissection with teleoperated haptic forceps (2017) (4)
- Analyzing Human High-Fives to Create an Effective High-Fiving Robot (2014) (4)
- Quantifying the Value of Visual and Haptic Position Feedback During Force-Based Motion Control (2007) (4)
- A Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism (2021) (4)
- D 1 GIT : AUTOMATED , TEMPERATURE-CALIBRATED MEASUREMENT OF CAPILLARY REFILL TIME (2012) (4)
- Sensorimotor-inspired Tactile Feedback and Control Improve Consistency of Prosthesis Manipulation in the Absence of Direct Vision (2021) (4)
- Robust tactile perception of artificial tumors using pairwise comparisons of sensor array readings (2016) (4)
- How Much Haptic Surface Data Is Enough? (2017) (3)
- Hierarchical Task-Parameterized Learning from Demonstration for Collaborative Object Movement (2019) (3)
- Changes in Normal Force During Passive Dynamic Touch: Contact Mechanics and Perception (2020) (3)
- Hand-Clapping Games with a Baxter Robot (2017) (3)
- Robot, Pass Me the Tool: Handle Visibility Facilitates Task-oriented Handovers (2022) (3)
- Finger motion and contact by a second finger influence the tactile perception of electrovibration (2021) (3)
- Ungrounded Vari-Dimensional Tactile Fingertip Feedback for Virtual Object Interaction (2021) (2)
- Explorations of Shape-Changing Haptic Interfaces for Blind and Sighted Pedestrian Navigation (2019) (2)
- Design and Implementation of a Visuo-Haptic Data Acquisition System for Robotic Learning of Surface Properties (2016) (2)
- High magnitude unidirectional haptic force display using a motor/brake pair and a cable (2017) (2)
- Endowing a NAO Robot With Practical Social-Touch Perception (2022) (2)
- Evaluation of Vibrotactile Output From a Rotating Motor Actuator (2021) (2)
- PrendoSim: Proxy-Hand-Based Robot Grasp Generator (2021) (2)
- Predicting the Force Map of an ERT-Based Tactile Sensor Using Simulation and Deep Networks (2023) (2)
- The Utility of Synthetic Reflexes and Haptic Feedback for Upper-Limb Prostheses in a Dexterous Task Without Direct Vision (2022) (2)
- [D72] Control of a virtual robot with fingertip contact, pressure, vibrotactile, and grip force feedback (2014) (2)
- Synchronicity Trumps Mischief in Rhythmic Human-Robot Social-Physical Interaction (2017) (2)
- 931 VERROTOUCH: VIBROTACTILE FEEDBACK FOR ROBOTIC MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY (2011) (1)
- Exercising with Baxter: Design and Evaluation of Assistive Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction (2018) (1)
- Perceptual Space of Algorithms for Three-to-One Dimensional Reduction of Realistic Vibrations (2022) (1)
- Design and Evaluation of a Novel Mechanical Device to Improve Hemiparetic Gait: A Case Report (2016) (1)
- Contact evolution of dry and hydrated fingertips at initial touch (2022) (1)
- Interactive Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Surgery (2019) (1)
- Predicting knee adduction moment response to gait retraining with minimal clinical data (2021) (1)
- Planning Manipulation and Grasping Tasks With a Redundant Arm (2011) (1)
- A Brake-Based Overground Gait Rehabilitation Device for Altering Propulsion Impulse Symmetry (2021) (1)
- Haptic feedback of instrument vibrations improves performance during robotic surgical simulation: a randomized controlled trial (2013) (1)
- The Power of External Mentors for Women Pursuing Academic Careers in Engineering and Science: Stories of MentorNet ACE and Its Protégés and Mentors (2007) (1)
- A Large-Scale Fabric-Based Tactile Sensor Using Electrical Resistance Tomography (2018) (1)
- Robotics for Occupational Therapy: Learning Upper-Limb Exercises From Demonstrations (2021) (1)
- Learning to Feel Textures: Predicting Perceptual Similarities From Unconstrained Finger-Surface Interactions (2022) (1)
- Effects of automated skill assessment on robotic surgery training (2022) (1)
- Reproducing a laser pointer dot on a secondary projected screen (2016) (0)
- Haptic Feedback of Tool Vibrations Facilitates Telerobotic Construction (2023) (0)
- Displaying Sensed Tactile Cues with a Fingertip (2015) (0)
- Analysis of the Instrument Vibrations and Contact Forces Caused by an Expert Robotic Surgeon Doing FRS Tasks (2015) (0)
- Minsight: A Fingertip-Sized Vision-Based Tactile Sensor for Robotic Manipulation (2023) (0)
- 2A2-G03 Virtual Alteration of Body Material by reality-Based Periodic Vibrotactile Feedback(Sense, Motion and Measurement (2)) (2013) (0)
- Soft Multi-Axis Boundary-Electrode Tactile Sensors for Whole-Body Robotic Skin (2018) (0)
- Improving Robotic Surgery Training with Bimanual Wrist Squeezing Haptic Feedback (2017) (0)
- Subject-Specific Biofeedback for Gait Retraining Outside of the Lab (2020) (0)
- Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs (2018) (0)
- Normal and tangential forces combine to convey contact pressure during dynamic tactile stimulation (2021) (0)
- Larger Skin-Surface Contact Through a Fingertip Wearable Improves Roughness Perception (2022) (0)
- Reconstructing Signing Avatars From Video Using Linguistic Priors (2023) (0)
- Keynote Speaker Tactile Reality (2018) (0)
- A Sensorized Needle-Insertion Device for Characterizing Percutaneous Thoracic Tool-Tissue Interactions (2022) (0)
- Cutaneous Feedback of Planar Fingertip Deformation and Vibration on a da Vinci Surgical Robot (2014) (0)
- Robot Interaction Studio: A Platform for Unsupervised HRI (2021) (0)
- Wrist-Squeezing Force Feedback Improves Accuracy and Speed in Robotic Surgery Training (2022) (0)
- Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time (2018) (0)
- Exercising with Baxter: preliminary support for assistive social-physical human-robot interaction (2020) (0)
- How Does It Feel to Clap Hands with a Robot? (2019) (0)
- A soft thumb-sized vision-based sensor with accurate all-round force perception (2022) (0)
- Dense 3D Reconstruction Through Lidar: A New Perspective on Computer-Integrated Surgery (2022) (0)
- Generating Clear Vibrotactile Cues with a Magnet Embedded in a Soft Finger Sheath. (2022) (0)
- Multimodal Multi-User Surface Recognition with the Kernel Two-Sample Test (2023) (0)
- How do expert hapticians evaluate grounded force-feedback devices? (2021) (0)
- Elements of Haptic Interfaces (2010) (0)
- The Penn Hand-Clapping Motion Dataset (2016) (0)
- Effects ofVisual andProprioceptive MotionFeedback on HumanControl ofTargeted Movement (2007) (0)
- The S-BAN: Insights into the Perception of Shape-Changing Haptic Interfaces via Virtual Pedestrian Navigation (2022) (0)
- Haptify: A Measurement-Based Benchmarking System for Grounded Force-Feedback Devices (2023) (0)
- [D97] A modular tactile motion guidance system (2014) (0)
- ROS open-source audio recognizer: ROAR environmental sound detection tools for robot programming (2013) (0)
- The Penn Baxter Face Database (2017) (0)
- A ROBOT WITH A GENTLE TOUCH “I want to create interactive robotic systems that can really help people.” The robots from Kuchenbecker’s lab are examples of the progress that has been made in the field of haptics (2022) (0)
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