Webinar Date: June 10, 2026

Speakers:

• Manuel Cruz, Operating Partner,  Chief Scientist and Head of HMI Lab - Innovobot Labs
  

• Gnyanesh (Nesh) Gandhe, Senior Human Factors Engineer - Microsoft
  
• Hong Z. Tan, Lead Haptics Scientist - Google, Android & Pixel

Details: Haptics is often treated as a simple confirmation mechanism: a click, a buzz, or a short vibration. But touch has the potential to communicate far more. From tactile speech systems to emerging platform-level haptic APIs, new approaches are showing how haptics can become a richer and more meaningful layer of human-machine interaction.

In this webinar, we will explore how perception-based haptic design can move interfaces beyond basic click effects toward feedback that is more expressive, scalable, and useful across devices. The discussion will cover why haptics remains under-utilized in HMI, what human perception teaches us about designing effective tactile feedback, and how advances in platform-level tools may enable more consistent and meaningful haptic experiences.

The session will also look ahead to applications where touch feedback may play an increasingly important role, including wearables, accessibility, medical devices, teleoperation, surgical robotics, industrial systems, and human interaction with physical AI.

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