Arthur (Ted) Kirkpatrick

(Assistant Professor)
Computing Science SFU

Assistant Professor Ted Kirkpatrick investigates haptic interfaces, or interfaces that incorporate the human sense of touch. Incorporating this research focus Professor Kirkpatrick is currently collaborating with fellow SFU professors Dr. Henry Daniel and Dr. Richard Vaughan in conjunction with SFU's Autonomy Lab, on the 2006-07 SSHRC Funded "Intelligent Dancing Machines" project to create a performance blending robot and human. The three are also collaborating within the framework of SFU Transnet that brings together sciences and the arts.

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ted/

Recent Publications, Performances or Presentations

1) Kirkpatrick, A. E., & Douglas, S. A. “Application-based evaluation of haptic interfaces.” Accepted to Tenth Symposium on haptic interfaces for virtual environment and teleoperator systems, Orlando, FL, March, 2002. (In press).
2) Douglas, S. A., & Kirkpatrick, A. E.  “Model and representation: The effect of visual feedback on human performance in a color picker interface.” ACM Transactions on Graphics 18. (1999): 96-127.
3) Kirkpatrick, A. E., & Douglas, S. A. “A shape recognition benchmark for evaluating usability of a haptic environment.” In S. Brewster & R. Murray-Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2001. 151-156.