I will describe our work towards solving these problems.
Contact interaction is essential to create the illusion of tangibility.
I will describe new techniques for physical simulation of contact at interactive rates, with visual deformation, contact sound synthesis, and haptic force feedback. About the Speaker Dinesh K. Pai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, a member of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, and a fellow of the BC Advanced Systems Institute. He's the Director of the UBC Active Measurement Facility. His research interests span the areas of robotics, graphics, modeling, and simulation. Another focus is fast simulation with integrated sound, haptics, and graphics, especially simulation of contact.