{"id":26466,"date":"2021-02-16T23:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T23:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immersion.com\/?p=26466"},"modified":"2021-04-19T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:02:20","slug":"immersions-challenge-week-fall-2020-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immersion.com\/zh\/immersions-challenge-week-fall-2020-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffImmersion\u2019s Challenge Week \u2013 Fall 2020 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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By Manuel Cruz, VP of Research and UX<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immersion has a tradition of bringing our scientists, engineers, business-minded, and creative thinking heads together to participate in an all-out innovation competition twice a year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Challenge Week, participants work with an assigned\nteam across departments to uncover new applications, innovate concepts, or\nimprove haptic capabilities. The teams work together for a few hours a day to share\nideas, collaborate, and combine their thinking power to come up with solutions\nto solve problems.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This last year, working under the conditions of COVID-19, Immersion\u2019s Challenge Day became Challenge Week. The event gave us a whole week to break from daily tasks to work together, think creatively, innovate, and collaborate across different departments, countries, and time zones.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The benefits of Challenge Week are plentiful. The week facilitates an accelerated innovation process that we draw from to infuse fresh thinking into our everyday work. By stepping outside our usual roles and engaging, we refine and further develop our curiosity and innovation skills. Challenge Week inspires and re-energizes our team as we tackle our goal to bring the digital world closer to the physical world using the sense of touch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The theme of Challenge Week November 2020 was \u201cThe Future of\nHaptics in AI.\u201d This competition\u2019s theme pick was an acknowledgment of the\nupcoming role artificial intelligence will play in the future of tech.  Some think of artificial intelligence as\nrobots and virtual assistants. However, AI technology applications are vast and\nwide and can range from a smart software program that has the agency to decide\nthe strength, the timing, and conditions to apply haptics (in Immersion\u2019s case)\nto a responsive app that makes life a little bit easier for the user, a\nself-driving car, or the VR robotic assistant that will help us manage\nimpossible tasks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s celebrate the winners!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First place – This team took both the community and\njudges\u2019 votes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Calming Buddy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposed by: Filip Aleksandrow, Alika Utepova, Jee Quach,\nEnrico Vianello, Andry Rabemiarisoa <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Calming Buddy is a device to help people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  The solution proposes the use of haptics as both a calming agent and a communicator for the caretaker.  Using AI to predict stress events, the Calming Buddy helps autistic users reduce the impact of triggers, allowing them to continue to engage with the world around them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second place – Tied for the judges\u2019 votes with the third-place winner, but received higher rankings with the community<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sixth Wave, an advanced navigation and safety system<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposed by: Felipe Almeida, Jamal Saboune, Alberto\nBonamico, Krystyne Blaikie, Majid Sheikholeslami<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sixth Wave system is a multimodal system that proposes\nto combine a camera and a walking stick and wearables into sonar, pressure and\nthermal feedback to help the visually impaired better navigate the world around\nthem.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third place <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intelligent Haptic Guide for the visually impaired<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposed by: Henry Da Costa, Yeshwant Muthusamy, Wasif\nAshraf, Ranjini Raghuveer, Raz Mousakhanian <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Intelligent Haptic Guide is a different implementation of an aid for the visually impaired.  It uses sensors and soundwave technology from the automotive industry\u2019s advanced driver-assistance systems to detect the environment.  Haptics is used to guide the user as they navigate their surroundings.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the winning teams! For all of the winning\napplications, we believe haptics add the intrinsic value of touch \u2013 bringing\nthe human world into the digital space and vice versa.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haptics, the\nscience of mediated touch<\/a>, has mechanical and emotional benefits \u2013\ndiscovery, navigation, excitement, assurance, and information.  As the industry \u2013 and we innovators \u2013 think about\nwhere the next technology revolution will take us, we need to remember to\ninclude the human aspects of the world we live in, including our sense of touch,\nin everything we build. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While last year\u2019s Challenge Week was distinctly unique\nbecause of its setting, we\u2019ve learned that innovation can happen regardless of\ntime, place or obstacles like a pandemic. Part of the process is learning how\nto collaborate and work together in any environment. The end goal is an\ninspired team, new ideas, and a more connected workforce.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Manuel Cruz, VP of Research and UX Immersion has a tradition of bringing our scientists, engineers, business-minded, and creative thinking heads together to participate in an all-out innovation competition twice a year. During Challenge Week, participants work with an assigned team across departments to uncover new applications, innovate concepts, or improve haptic capabilities. 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