Femke van Beek
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Femke van Beek works as a postdoc with Irene Kuling, in the Dynamics and Control Group of the Department of Mechnical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her current project is part of the 4TU Soft Robots Program, in which soft robots are developed by taking inspiration from nature, like octopus arms and elephant trunks. She uses these soft robots for creating haptic feedback, i.e. touch feedback, in Virtual Reality and tele-operation applications. By using these novel soft haptic feedback displays, she investigates which haptic stimuli are vital to unlock more intuitive interactions with simulated systems.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Femke holds an MSc in sensory biology and biomechanics from Wageningen University, after which she changed her focus from animals to humans in her PhD. In her project, she worked on haptic perception for tele-operation applications, under the supervision of Astrid Kappers and Wouter Bergmann Tiest at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Next, she moved to Seattle for a postdoc at Oculus Research/Facebook Reality Labs, where she worked on using haptics together with visuals and sound to create tangible, interactable objects in Virtual and Augmented Reality. After 5 years of research in this industry setting, she returned to the Netherlands and to academia at the TU/e.
Recent Publications
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Brandon J. Caasenbrood,Femke E. Van Beek,Hoang Khanh Chu,Irene A. Kuling
A Desktop-sized Platform for Real-time Control Applications of Pneumatic Soft Robots
(2022) -
Femke E. van Beek,Irene A. Kuling
Haptic Feedback for Wrist Angle Adjustment
(2022) -
Femke E. van Beek,Kaj Gijsbertse,Pieter S. de Vries,Irene A. Kuling
A Comparison of Haptic and Auditory Feedback as a Warning Signal for Slip in Tele-Operation Scenarios
(2022) -
Femke van Beek,Raymond King,Casey Brown,Massimiliano Di Luca,Sean Keller
Static weight perception through skin stretch and kinesthetic information: detection thresholds, JNDs, and PSEs
IEEE Transactions on Haptics (2021) -
Serena Bochereau,Jonathan Browder,Femke van Beek,Raymond King
Tactile simulation of initial contact with virtual objects
(2020)
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