Скачать или смотреть Human Brain Expo (HBE2023): Keith Kirkland “Haptics | Why Education is the Next Frontier”

Keith Kirkland is a haptics enthusiast, accessories designer, engineer and impact-driven strategist that is deeply excited about reimagining the use of touch in design and digital communications.  His work has been recognized by the Pratt’s Rowena Reed-Kostellow Award, SXSW, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, EY, TED, Dropbox, The Yokohama Government, Beyond Bauhaus, and the MET Museum. He is a serial entrepreneur inspired by the intersection of touch, equitable business model development and nuanced customer insights to create sustainable impact-driven technologies that deliver at scale. Keith is also cofounder of WearWorks, an award-winning haptic navigation company that help the first person who is blind run the NYC marathon without sighted assistance. HapticNav™ and Wayband®, is a haptic navigation app (and optional haptic wristband) that gently navigates a person to a destination using vibrations, without the need for any visual or audio feedback.
Intro 
The haptics industry was projected to be $8B in 2022.  It did $9.2B.  By 2030 the haptics industry is expected to grow to $23B globally.  With CAGR at 11% up from the projected 8%, we are seeing an acceleration of haptic development and applications.  
There are a few things driving this development.  The gaming industry's phenomenal growth (now, it is 3x larger than film and music industries combined!).  Also, the drive toward VR/AR and the need for haptic feedback in virtual training and medical simulations has also pushed the development of haptics forward.  
As designing with, and for, the sense of touch becomes more accessible, there is an elephant in the room: Who are the future hapticians that will fill these new roles? The educational degrees needed to fill this opportunity are mainly at the PhD and Masters level. With so few programs offered for study, how might our industry respond to support educational needs to fill these new opportunities. 

Summary
One of touch’s greatest touted assets is its innate accessibility.  This talk is to present a need for haptics education as one of the major opportunities to create a ubiquitous (and thoughtful) haptic future.