<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The other guest editors and I are very excited to present this special issue. We hope you will consider contributing. <div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Yon Visell</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Call for Papers</b><div class=""><b class="">IEEE Transactions on Haptics</b></div><div class="">Special Issue on <b class="">Active Touch Sensing in Robots, Humans, and Other Animals</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Submission deadline</b>: April 1 2015</div><div class=""><b class="">First decision to authors</b>: June 1 2015</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Complete Details: <a href="http://re-touch-lab.com/ieee-toh-issue" class="">http://re-touch-lab.com/ieee-toh-issue</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Guest Editors:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yon Visell, Drexel University</div><div class="">Vincent Hayward, Université Pierre et Marie Curie</div><div class="">Mitra Hartmann, Northwestern University</div><div class="">Nathan Lepora, University of Bristol</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Topical Summary:</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class="">This special issue addresses the challenges posed by actively sensing and interacting with the world through the sense of touch, whether the latter is implemented through a technological or biological system. Active touch sensing is recovering information about the world by ‘touching’ rather than ‘being touched’ – by interpreting signals from sensors whose motion is deliberately controlled to facilitate information gain. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The scope of this issue includes both biological and technological systems for active touch sensing, and implications for haptics. This issue will consider electronic systems for active touch sensing that are biologically inspired systems, in addition to other inherently active approaches to touch sensing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Biological systems for active touch sensing are highly capable, and, by comparison, the field of robotic touch sensing is in its infancy. The former demonstrate many valuable concepts for active touch sensing that are being intensively investigated. They have also illustrated ways that active touch sensing is enabled through specialized sensory transduction channels, biomechanics, structural morphology, behavioral, and control strategies that are implemented by biological systems, and through other advantages that they achieve, including robustness, adaptability, and power efficiency. Similar challenges must be overcome if technological systems are to one day achieve comparable levels of sensorimotor performance to biological systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">Specific topics of interest include:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- The design of electronic or biological systems for active touch sensing, their principles of operation (electronic, biological, mechanical) and performance. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Biomechanical aspects of active touch sensing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Relations between active touch sensing and behavior, especially motor activity.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Sensory information processing and sensorimotor control strategies in humans, animals, or robots related to active touch sensing, including behavioral, physiological or neuroscience investigations, and neural control.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Learning by active touch. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Applications to the design of haptic interfaces.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Authors should specifically include a discussion of how their results shed light on fundamental aspects of active touch sensing rather than assuming that this can be inferred from context.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><b class="">Submission process:</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="">Visit <a href="http://www.computer.org/toh" class="">http://www.computer.org/toh</a> to view formatting requirements, and submit your paper at <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/th-cs" class="">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/th-cs</a>. When uploading your paper please select the appropriate special issue title under the category “Manuscript Type.” </div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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