From blake Wed Apr 30 17:28 PDT 1997 From: Blake Hannaford To: bhmail Summary: I am requesting your help to define, organize, and operate a new high-quality electronic journal of research in haptics. Body: As you know, the last year or so has seen a tremendous growth and excitement in the haptics community. I feel that the time is ripe for the creation of a new refereed technical journal dedicated to haptics. At last week's IEEE Robotics and Automation meeting, Vincent Hayward and I discussed this idea with many of you and the response was unanimously positive. Vincent and I put our heads together and tried to identify the people around the world who have made the most important contributions to the field. If you are reading this, you are one of those people. In this email I would like to share some thoughts with you about this new journal and most importantly, solicit your help and ideas. First of all, I feel that two compelling facts stand out: 1) There is a need for a high quality archival technical forum dedicated to "haptics"* and this need will only grow. 2) There are too many journals cluttering up library shelves and competing for precious subscription money. (* Precise definition to be worked out with your help) The obvious response to these facts is a new ELECTRONIC haptics journal available on the web free of charge, which would retain the high review standards of current paper journals such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, but take full advantage of today's communications revolution. I propose that the new journal be created and run entirely on a volunteer basis, independent of any existing technical society. Now that www hardware, software and technical support are so widely available, the cost, compatibility, and reliability concerns which have caused reservations in the past seem vanishingly small today. Currently, high quality journals in engineering take up to 2 years to publish even papers which are accepted with only minor revisions. An electronic journal can cut this time significantly. Curiously, engineering as a field seems to lag behind many other scholarly fields in terms of electronic publishing. I know of no reviewed scholarly electronic journals in any field of engineering! The electronic form introduces fantastic possibilities for the future. Right off the bat, papers published in this new journal can include color photos, CAD drawings, and hypertext links to WWW pages with very little effort. Video and audio recordings can also be published. But the most exciting possibility is publishing haptic simulations. Some of you have already developed haptic enabled plug-ins for Netscape! Imagine the ability to publish haptic simulations that can be felt by people around the world! I would like to ask you to consider becoming part of an editorial board for this new adventure. However, because this is a start-up, you must make a commitment of energy (specified below) to be listed on this board. If you are still reading so far, please take the additional time to complete the attached form and send it back to me. Your active participation is essential if this idea is to succeed. Thank you Blake - - - cut here - - - - =========================================================================== Electronic Haptics Journal Questionnaire =========================================================================== Your Name: =========================================================================== First the commitment: Please type your initials at the end of each statement to commit yourself to the following tangible efforts on the part of the new journal: 1) I agree to personally review 3 to 5 manuscripts per year within 30 days of receipt: ___ 2) I agree to contribute at least one archival quality paper (subject to peer review) to the new electronic journal within one year of the appearance of a call for papers: ___ 3) I agree to help promote the journal by soliciting high quality submissions at conferences, from colleagues, etc: ___ Now I ask your help in defining the journal more precisely: Please list three topics which SHOULD be included in the scope of the journal: 1) 2) 3) Please list three topics which SHOULD NOT be included in the scope of the journal: 1) 2) 3) Please list up to three papers you have published in the area of haptics research to illustrate the scope of your interests: 1) 2) 3) Are there any people whom we have left off of this mailing list who you feel should have been included?? Please list them: Finally, please suggest a NAME for the new journal: (my own suggestion is "Haptics-e, the electronic journal of virtual and remote manipulation") Any other ideas / comments:? =========================================================================== Sent on April 30, 1997 To: Universities hayward@cim.mcgill.ca Vincent Hayward howe@arcadia.harvard.edu Robert Howe jks@ai.mit.edu Kenneth Salisbury marg@ai.mit.edu Margaret Minsky BERGAMASCO@SSSUP1.SSSUP.IT Massimo Bergamasco kazeroon@euler.Berkeley.EDU Homanyoon Kazerooni bda@eos.arc.nasa.gov Bernard D. Adelstein iwata@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp Hiroo Iwata hirose@ingram.mech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Michitaka Hirose srinivasan@cbgrle.mit.edu Mandayam A. Srinivasan jmh@cs.utah.edu John Hollerbach colgate@nwu.edu J. Edward Colgate ronf@bistro.eecs.berkeley.edu Ronald Fearing lederman@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca Susan Lederman klatzky+@andrew.cmu.edu Roberta Klatzky kshimoga@andrew.cmu.edu Karun Shimoga yoshi@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp Tsuneo Yoshikawa yokokoji@mech.kyoto-u.ac.jp Yoshi Yokogogi tims@ee.ubc.ca Tim Salcudean tachi@star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Susumo Tachi kosuge@irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp Kazuhiro Kosuge pai@cs.ubc.ca Dinesh Pai Ralph_Hollis@saxophone.msl.ri.cmu.edu Ralph Hollis Gerd.Hirzinger@dlr.de Gerd Hirzinger Dale.Lawrence@Colorado.EDU Dale Lawrence ljones@mit.edu Lynette A. Jones ihunter@mit.edu Ian W. Hunter burdea@caip.rutgers.edu Grigore C. Burdea grluecke@iastate.edu Gregory R. Luecke Industry wmcneely@espresso.rc.cs.boeing.com Bill McNeely troy@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com Jim Troy cramstein@haptic.ca Christophe Ramstein chasser@immerse.com Chris Hasser louis@immerse.com Louis B. Rosenberg verplank@interval.com Bill Verplank maclean@interval.com Karon McLean pstewart@ford.com Paul Stewart pbuttolo@ford.com Pietro Buttolo massie@sensable.com Thomas Massie aviles@sensable.com Walt Aviles moreyra@cris.com Manuel Moreyra adachi@yrd.suzuki.co.jp Yoshitaka Adachi dal96@pyungtaik.lge.co.kr Dal-Yeon Hwang