Overview

The IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025 solicits original, high-quality submissions that are relevant to all the scientific, technological, and application aspects of haptics in the following forms:

Type of Contributions
  • Long Papers, Regular Papers
  • Work-in-Progress (WIP) Papers
  • Hands-On Demonstrations
  • Workshops and Tutorials
  • Student Innovation Challenge (SIC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Haptics (ToH) Papers
Topics of Interests

To ensure a good match between the papers and the reviewers, each submission will be considered by one of three subcommittees:

*Understanding Touch: uncovering new scientific understanding of the sense of touch and related capabilities of humans and other organisms. Sample topics include human haptic perception, psychophysics, the neuroscience of touch, and biomechanics and motor control.

*Technology and Systems: developing and characterizing new technologies and systems for delivering haptic feedback or facilitating haptic interaction. Sample topics include haptic interface design and control, tactile displays, haptic sensors, haptic actuators, teleoperation, robotic manipulation, haptic modeling and rendering, shared haptic control, and physical human-robot interaction (pHRI).

*Applications and Interaction: designing and understanding the role of haptics in particular applications or types of interactions. Sample topics include human-computer interaction (HCI) involving haptics, multimodal systems, virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), telepresence, embedded/ubiquitous haptics, and haptics in applications such as industrial, commercial, medical, health, art, and design.

Important Dates
  • – January 17, 2025: Workshop/Tutorial Expression of Interest (EOI) Submission
  • – January 31, 2025: Regular and Long paper Submission Deadline (Firm, No Extensions)
  • – Mid March, 2025: Student Innovation Challenge Proposal Submission
  • – April 16, 2025: Regular and Long paper Acceptance Notification
  • – April 24, 2025: Work-in-Progress (WIP) Paper Submission Deadline
  • – April 30, 2025: Hands-On Demonstrations Submission Deadline
  • – Late April, 2025: WHC 2025 presentation invitations for authors of ToH papers
  • – Mid May, 2025: Camera-ready paper submission deadline
  • – July 8-11, 2025: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025